There are some game recaps where the narrative of the game feels so set in stone that you can start writing the darned thing in the fourth inning and be pretty confident you won’t need to rewrite the entire thing later. Then there are games where you don’t start writing a word until the eighth inning and are pretty happy for it. Today is an example of the latter.
Through six innings it was a classic pitcher’s duel between Blake Snell — with a 2-1 record — and Clay Buccholz — making his 2019 season debut. While Buccholz’s stuff wasn’t exactly what I’d qualify as “sharp” he still managed to stymie the Rays offensive production, limiting them to a single run in six innings: an Austin Meadows single that scored Willy Adames.