I had an awful feeling about this one.

AND THEN DRAKE BALDWIN WENT AND TOTALLY REDEEMED THE BRAVES.

Let’s start with the pitching before we get there, though – Hurston Waldrep looked really good.

The young righty threw a lot of pitches in this one, as it took 102 pitches to get through 5.2 innings, but the splitter was working. Waldrep got whiffs on 52% (13 of 25 swings) of his splitters, and he ended up with 9 strikeouts on the evening. The Philadelphia Phillies clearly struggled to figure out what the pitch was doing, and Waldrep looked every part the former first-round pick.

He ran into really only a couple of issues.

The first was a shaky bottom of the third. Nick Castellanos, of the 5.1% walk rate, started off with a walk, and Harrison Bader ended up with a single on what can be

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