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Source: FanGraphs
- Keeping it close: Max Scherzer (+15.1%) does his best, giving up 1 run in 6 IP with 8 Ks and walk, but it's not enough.
- Also keeping it close: Aaron Barrett (+7.0%) earns a shutdown by getting the last out in the 7th with the bases loaded.
- Not keeping it close: Blake Treinen (-14.3%) adds a spectacular and superfluous meltdown in the 9th, letting in four runs and only getting one out.
- Weak up the middle: Ian Desmond (-9.9%) and Danny Espinosa (-8.8%) combine to go 0-7 with a GDP.
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