1. First impressions get remembered, and that’s not good for Trevor Richards. He walked his first batter, Victor Reyes. Then he struck out his second batter with Dawel Lugo swinging under a changeup up in the zone that didn’t drop—if it had dropped as Richards intended it to, Lugo might have hit it a mile. Then he fell behind his third batter, Harold Castro, and doubled up on fastballs in the zone. Castro did hit the second one a mile, giving the Tigers a 2-0 lead.
But you know what? Let’s zoom out a little bit.