Freddie Freeman is tied with a league-leading nine RBI and walks 40 percent of the time.
Fastest runners in baseball according to Statcast
- Byron Buxton and Billy Hamilton (30.1ft/sec)
- Bradley Zimmer (29.9ft/sec)
Shohei Ohtani hit his first home run in his first at-bat in Angels stadium, now 4 for 9 in two games as DH
Clayton Kershaw gave up a career-high 23 homers in 2017. He has given up three in his first two starts, all left-handed hitters.
Matt Harvey didn’t get the win while allowing less than two runs for the 24th time
Joe Panik hit another home run and the Giants are the first team in major-league history to score its first three runs in a season on solo homers by the same man.
Cole Hamels’ struck out 11 over five innings, the most in Texas/Washington franchise history for a pitcher with five innings or less.
Kendall Graveman has allowed nine runs over 10 innings, including four home runs, Last year he gave up 12 homers in 105 innings
Marco Gonzalez allowed three earned runs on four hits and three walks while striking out two. It was the first time he pitched more than five innings since 2014. Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge were 1-for-7 against him, but Tyler Austin hit two home runs. He allows too many homers.
Matt Boyd earned one run on four hits over six innings and still got the loss.
Jakob Junis allowed three hits and one walk while striking out six over seven scoreless innings. He was pitching against the Tigers though so let’s see how he does when he goes up against the Indians later this week
Tip of the cap @rotolady you were the only person I herd mention the name Jakob Junis during draft prep season, great call 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 pic.twitter.com/dYKR2KuWRf
— Mike Wright (@DrtyGator) April 4, 2018
Team Notes
15 of the 20 runs allowed by the Pirates have been in the sixth, seventh and ninth innings. They better add an effector because none of their starters can pitch late into games.
Boston starters have allowed less than two runs in each of their six games and a 2.21 team ERA. Sale has a .82 ERA and zero wins.
The Marlins have gone into extra innings three times for 13 extra innings.
The Cubbies have 12 home runs with 25 runs scored in their first four games.
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