Game Thread: This opener thing is really working out well.....

[Doomtints]

Stewart would have his first win if he had started the game.

[Vanimal46]

Stewart would have his first win if he had started the game.

From what I'm learning about this hot, new concept it's more important Stewart made it through the 6th inning unscathed. Great success!

[ashbury]

Stewart would have his first win if he had started the game.

What's your working theory as to where those 4 first-inning runs came from? Was it May's ineptitude? Or was it the Astros batters coming out on-fire? Because, if you're suggesting an alternate-universe, I have a plausible scenario to offer for a Stewart start, in either case.

 

Hint: Trevor May still features prominently in one of them, and Stewart doesn't get a W in either of them.

 

Or, maybe you have a way to foretell that this wasn't the day to bring Trevor May into the game at all. In that case, Oliver Drake's actual 7th inning offers a guide as to how long that a 1-0 lead would have lasted after Stewart's start. 

 

We also didn't get the opportunity to find out what a bottom-of-the-9th would have been like, and what creative way would have been found to louse that one up.

 

I'm taking nothing away from Stewart's (actual) fine outing, of course.