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Game 66 Recap: Hamels Outduels Wacha, Sort Of

Michael Wacha threw one bad pitch tonight, and the Cardinals lost the game 1-0. This was it, and this is Rougned Odor hitting a home run:

Okay, I'm going to immediately backtrack: he threw a whole bunch of bad pitches. Look at this:

So more accurately, Wacha threw I don't know, 10 or 15 middle-middle pitches (which is bad) and one of those bad pitches was thrown to a guy who was looking for it, and that guy did his job. It's a bit misleading, and more than a bit fatalistic, to say "well that was a meatball; of course Odor hit it out.