Wacha (2-3) lasted three innings in Tuesday's loss to the Dodgers, allowing four runs (three earned) on five hits and three walks. He struck out four.
Wacha enjoyed a pair of scoreless frames to begin the game, but he unraveled in the third and yielded four runs on four hits and two walks, running up his pitch count before his removal after the end of the inning. The right-hander was quite solid through his first seven outings of the season, but nine earned runs in seven innings over back-to-back matchups with the Dodgers have bloated his ERA over a full run to 3.99. He will look to get back on track Sunday against the underachieving Cubs.