As much as the pitching largely carried the day, a certain young shortstop provided a handful of bright sparks on either side of the ball, and so George Lombard Jr. earns his first appearance on At-bat of the Week. We join Lombard leading off the bottom of the seventh of the middle game against the Braves on Saturday. However, Lombard now faces the hard-throwing righty reliever Victor Mederos, a very different look from the sidearming southpaw Sale. AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementMederos starts Lombard with a first pitch sinker at 96 looking to tie the hitter up on the inner half. After missing so wildly with that cutter, Mederos breaks out his third different fastball of the encounter, the four-seamer.