Baseball delivered one of those summer peculiarities Saturday at Great American Ball Park that, for more than five innings, simply defied all logic.
CINCINNATI — Joan Adon, recalled earlier in the day from Class AAA Rochester to start for the Washington Nationals, retired the first 17 Cincinnati Reds he faced. One of the worst starters in baseball in 2022 by almost any metric, Adon suddenly found himself flirting with history.That flirtation, fueled by a buckling combination of a pinpoint fastball and a sharp curveball, came to an end with a single by Luke Maile with two outs in the sixth.
Here was Adon, a week before his 25th birthday, getting another shot in the majors, showing a quiet confidence that he belonged. There was little statistical evidence to back his belief — he was 1-12 in 2022 with a 7.10 ERA after starting the season as the team’s fifth starter before getting sent down and was just 3-5 with a 4.62 ERA for the Red Wings this season.Adon admitted this spring that there were moments last season when the game sped up on him and he didn’t know how to slow it down.
After Stone Garrett gave the Nationals a 1-0 lead in the first inning with a two-out RBI double, Adon struck out the side. The Nationals added a run in the second on Lane Thomas’s sacrifice fly, three more in the fourth and another in the sixth inning to give Adon a comfortable advantage.Adon struck out six hitters through the first five innings, and it wasn’t until the fifth that the Reds put a ball in play that went out of the infield. Adon threw 38 fastballs and 35 curveballs.
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