So if you were busy with another thing and turned on today’s Pirates/Padres game in the middle of stuff, you might have seen this:
Formal headline: The Pirates lost to the Padres today 8-3.
Informal headline: #TankForEli
This was a game where pretty much from the moment Mitch Keller threw his second pitch, which Trent Grisham lined into right field, that it was going to be a long day. Keller, who looked so good on Saturday, reverted to spring training form.
He was ... not great, Bob, in spring training.
Before the first inning came to a merciful end, the score was 4-0 Padres, courtesy of a Manny Machado two-run homer and timely doubles by Jake Cronenworth and Tucupita Marcano which brought home Grisham and Cronenworth respectively.