The game itself was a kind of surprising flop. Odorizzi seems more and more like the poster boy for the "three times through the order is too many" phenomenon, though I'm not sure he even got that far. But Buxton taking a 97pm 1-2 fastball from Syndergaard off the outside corner *hard* against the right-centerfield wall was the sort of thing we haven't really seen from him outside his outburst in September 2017. Just really, really nice hitting.

So maybe he's good now? I'd really enjoy that. I don't know what to expect out of this team, but the more fun players the better. Wins are ideal, but I'm watching one way or the other so I'll take "ooooo, you don't see that very often."