No matter how this game went, I had a fairly easy narrative for this game. Carlos Martinez is pitching in his second game back from the disabled list. He didn’t look that great in his first game, so this start could go several ways, all of which make for an easy theme for a recap. Not always the case in a long baseball season. But then Gerry Davis, the home plate umpire for the game, complicated things.
I don’t like blaming the umpire. I really don’t. But thanks to Davis, I can’t really tell you if Martinez pitched good or bad.