Charlie Morton had been on a roll of late, but all semblance of a potentially easy outing evaporated for him early. He walked each of the first three lefties he faced, and after finally getting a lefty for an out (Marsh, in the second), he then hit a batter. Fortunately for him, though, he retired all the righties he faced in the first two frames save for that hit-by-pitch.
Things got even more comfortable for them in the third, as Whit Merrifield started the frame by reaching on Trea Turner booting a ball, and then Matt Olson hit an absolutely insane mash to center, drilling the ball over the batter's eye. It wasn't even hit egregiously hard (106.7 mph), but it must've been a paragon of backspin or something.
Both of these things came to roost in a mightily unpleasant way in Philadelphia, as Charlie Morton gave up yet another big homer to Brandon Marsh... and Grant Holmes served up a game-deciding two-run shot to Nick Castellanos. Meanwhile, another old foe of the Braves, bad outcomes on barrels, decided to crash the party once again.
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