Donaldson was ridiculous last night. On the first homer, yeah, Kelly missed his spot. The pitch was supposed to be away, but it was still below the knees on the inner half and he managed to hit it out to right-center. Crazy. The second homer was out of the strike zone up and away and he drove it down the right field line for a homer. Neither pitch was a meatball. Neither pitch was middle-middle. Both were on the fringes of the strike zone, and perhaps neither of them was actually a strike. Yet he hit two homers. I know the second one was off Koji, but still...Donaldson was totally in the zone yesterday.Agreed, though I'm not ready to write off Kelly like that. 8 Ks in 4.2 is a good sign for him; it looked to me like he got a little unlucky, but mostly that loss is on Donaldson just having an unstoppable night.
You can't fault a pitcher for giving up a home run on a pitch that's out of the strike zone. The hitter isn't even supposed to be swinging at that.