Life must be simple for Spencer Strider: Wake up, spin your fastball, snap your slider, avoid animal byproducts, repeat.
The Atlanta Braves starter and vegan superhuman has spent the last 14 innings of his professional career facing the San Francisco Giants and I don’t think it’d be too much of a reach to say that he probably enjoyed it. His 1-hit, 10-K, 7 inning dominance last Friday (game score 84—second highest of his season) was followed up with a similarly breezy 3-hit, 1-run, 9-K outing.
From the Giants’ perspective, you needed this match-up like you needed a hole in the head.