It took until yesterday afternoon—the fourth day of the postseason—before two starting pitchers completed six innings in the same game. Hours later, two other starting pitchers did it again. It was refreshing to see, not because of some old-timey, pitcher-wins-matter romanticism. But simply because it’s exciting to watch staff aces shove in games where one mistake can make all the difference.
That’s exactly what happened in the first game, between the Brewers and Braves at American Family Field in Milwaukee. As he’s done in every postseason since 2017, Atlanta’s Charlie Morton was dealing against the Brewers, who managed just three base runners (two singles, one walk) off the 37-year-old and struck out nine times over six innings.