So here’s the thing: by the time I got home from work, walked the dogs, cooked dinner, and turned on the game Jake Woodford was about 80 pitches in already and it was the fourth inning. The game had been on for about an hour and by that point the St. Louis Cardinals were losing to the Atlanta Braves 6-1.
I continued to watch as the Cardinals tacked on a few runs in the bottom of the fourth on a fortuitously placed single from Jordan Walker and a groundout from Brendan Donovan. The score was a much more manageable 6-3.