Sho Alli

Smashes the home run off of Simeon Woods Richardson in the fourth.

A slider that Woods Richardson left a little too much in the zone.

105 miles an hour off the bat.

In the fifth, Vladdy then walks.

Then Okamoto blasts the second home run of the game.

110 miles an hour off the bat.

His seventh of the year leads the team.

A splitter that also caught too much of the zone.

I mean, SWR probably... You're used to, I think, from any splitter from most pitchers, you're used to seeing that diving action, and it just didn't dive, right?

It just kept catching that corner of the zone.

So nice to see Okamoto, who...

has struggled early in the year in his first 20 games or so, had struggles against kind of everything, right?

It was the fast stuff, the high heats, the off-speed pitches.

He looked like he just wasn't seeing the pitch as well.

I think Dan Schulman used the phrase, Caitlin, I think in between we talked about it, that he looked a little tentative, but that even when we were talking about it during the Diamondbacks series, it looked like he was a little less tentative, I would say.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's good to see Okamoto continuing to keep this hot streak going, I guess I should say, because, yeah, if you get a guy like that, I mean, I don't know if the ideal spot for him is behind Vladdy, but if you get a guy like that hitting behind Vladdy, it does mean even Vladdy will get better pitches to see.

Yeah, good night for the two big Japanese batters that were signed.

Munataka Murakami hit his now, at the time, again, this could change, I suppose, but his league-leading 13th home run of the season.

So both Murakami and Okamoto looking real good so far this season.