Bailey Falter came into Sunday night hoping to eliminate his first-inning issues this season with a 1.149 OPS allowed.
Things didn’t go as planned once again for Falter, Jeremy Peña led off the first with a single right back up the middle, Alex Bregman walked on 6 pitches, and Yordan Alvarez on 4, loading up the bases with no outs.
Falter worked out of it only allowing a run. José Abreu grounded into a double play to make it 1-0 and Kyle Tucker barely missed an inside fastball for a flyout to right.
JT Realmuto answered right back in the second, taking a hanging sweeper into the Crawford boxes to tie the game.