Braves Batter Berrios

Braves 12
Twins 7

Years ago I seemed to have the worst luck going to Johan Santana starts. Either he would get zero run support and lose, or he would have an off night himself and lose.

And now it's getting that way with Jose Berrios. This was my 2nd straight game I attended with a Berrios start. Last time out against Boston we got shutout. This time Berrios had literally one of his worst starts of his career.

First pitch of the game is rocketed into the seats by Ronald Acuna Jr. Later a Freddie Freeman 3 run bomb is set into orbit. Then the bottom totally fell out in the 6th in an interminable 6 run mess that Cody Stashak added a cherry on top of.

11-0 into the bottom of the 6th. About the only matters left to be determined were what position player would finish the game on the mound, and would I suffer a 2nd straight shutout.

Thankfully Nelson Cruz spared me of the shutout concerns with a homerun. I've never been so relieved to only be down 10 runs before in my life. Then Garver hit a 2 run homerun.

Then Cruz clobbered a 3 run homerun in the 7th and suddenly it was looking like we could be in for the most amazing comeback ever. Sadly they got no closer, although Rosario did hit a solo shot in the 9th to make me not feel like a total schmuck for sticking around.

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