Gore authored a dominant performance on Tuesday evening at loanDepot park, retiring 16 consecutive batters and carrying a perfect-game bid into the sixth inning before giving up a one-out walk to rookie Griffin Conine. His no-hit bid was broken up by ensuing batter Nick Fortes, who smacked a go-ahead double to left field to break up a potential shutout. The 25-year-old southpaw has always possessed top-of-the-rotation upside, but has never quite put it all together consistently at the highest level. He'll square off against the Braves on Tuesday in a home matchup.
It wasn't pretty as Pfaadt served up nine hits, including a third-inning solo shot to Nick Fortes, but it was good enough as Arizona's offense ultimately supplied him with nine runs of support. He struck out four and only handed out a pair of free passes. The 25-year-old righty has been all over the map from a performance standpoint, but he's done a decent job avoid any serious implosions. He'll bring a respectable 4.08 ERA, 1.15 WHIP and 139/31 K/BB ratio across 150 innings (25 starts) into a road tilt on Sunday against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
Fortes was activated from the IL on Friday and sat against a left-handed pitcher but then started the next three games. He is playing enough that he could be worth a look in deeper two-catcher formats, but he's hitting just .217/.242/.290 in 80 games this season with two home runs, so he isn't bringing much to the table.