Since making his first start on May 29, Mike Fiers has consistently baffled hitters with little more than spotless command and good off-speed stuff, despite the difficulty of being consistently successful in the majors with such an assortment. However, it took an eight-inning near-no-hitter of the Reds eighty innings later for his performance to really get noticed by a national audience. Then, in his next start (last night at the Rockies) he was hit with a hard dose of regression: Eight runs in two innings. Twitter, per usual, was somewhat panicky – is this the start in which the rest of the league finally catches up on Fiers?

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