Trevor Williams gave up a home run on the second pitch he threw in last week’s start on the road in Chicago’s Wrigley Field. Williams held the Cubs to a run on three hits over the next four innings, but he’d thrown 98 pitches after five, so his manager went to the ‘pen at that point.
“It would’ve been nice to get Trevor back out there again [in the sixth],” Davey Martinez told reporters after the bullpen imploded in the eighth inning of an 8-3 loss.
“But he had 98 pitches after coming off a two-inning [rain-shortened] game his last outing.