Well, we live to fight another day. After last night’s bullpen implosion against the team with the second best record in the major leagues, Zac Gallen took the mound tonight to try to help us even things up. Aaron Nola was his opposite number, and while Gallen really was trash for the first three or four months of the season, Nola had actually been worse, so this one certainly seemed winnable. Especially if Good Gallen showed up.

He didn’t, sadly. Two batters and six pitches into the game, we were already down by a run; by the time the top of the first was over, we were down by two. In fairness to Gallen, he walked the leadoff hitter on four pitches, and then gave up a double to Kyle Schwarber, but he really did settle down after that. A one-pitch ground ball out to Bryce Harper got Schwa

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