Blake Snell’s Friday night time begin was fairly abnormal — 5 innings, three runs and a no-decision. What made it noteworthy is that the Padres’ southpaw was in a position to pitch in any respect.
The night time earlier than, Snell’s automobile was hit by one other automobile, in keeping with the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Snell wasn’t thankfully not damage by what was a suspected drunk driver Thursday night time on Interstate 5. The automobile hit the motive force’s facet of Snell’s automobile round 11 p.m. at a site visitors cease.
“Bodily, he’s high quality,” Padres supervisor Bob Melvin mentioned earlier than Friday’s loss to the Nationals. “However that may shake you up slightly bit. However our guys checked him out at this time. And we’ve talked to him. And he’s able to pitch. So I believe we most likely acquired fortunate.”
Whereas Snell, a former Cy Younger award winner whereas with the Rays, has had a largely disappointing season, he's at the moment pitching a lot better, reducing his ERA to three.76 after his newest outing.
He’s given up simply six earned runs in his final 33.2 innings. He’s additionally helped the Padres keep playoff place, a recreation forward of the Brewers for the final NL wild card.
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