So what? Very few pitchers have had one. Better to say his control sucks, with which I heartily agree.Originally Posted by illinoisredsox
Great to see these bit players get a chance to show what they can do, which, it seems, isn't much. Munoz an awful K, Arauz an error, a piss-poor one in fact.
ERod is at least mixing up his pitches today and not throwing fastball after fastball after fastball. Plus he is trying not throw anything down the middle. 2 straight groundouts off that changeup, which is probably his best pitch.
He also has that cutter, which works well on the corners as it just did for his 3d ground out.
We just saw an ERod immaculate inning: 3 up, 3 down, all on grounders, and he only threw 6 pitches. That's good pitching!!!!
Has nothing to do with control; it has everything to do with mindset. Sale goes 0-2 on a hitter and he goes after the hitter on the next pitch. ERod, on those rare occasions when he does go 0-2, will nibble and often as not, end up 2-2 or 3-2.
Read that the immaculate inning is more rare than a no-hitter. There have been something like 315 no-hit games in major league history vs. 204 immaculate innings.
The Yankees could go 0-162 and it wouldn't be enough
Two terrible, rotten, worthless starters have together given up 3 hits and 0 runs in 3 innings. Someone forgot to tell them how truly awful they are, and the hitters would vehemently disagree with that characterization.
plus a position player pitching got him out.
He needs a rest.
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It has everything to do with control. It's precisely because Sale is confident he can throw his fastball, slider, or changeup where he needs to that he is able to be aggressive on K's.
If ERod had Sale's command, he would be more aggressive.
Tonight he has no K's, but needed just 30 pitches to get through the first 3 innings. He has thrown few pitches down the middle and has mixed them up.
Last edited by Maxbialystock; 08-27-2021 at 07:06 PM.
No offense whatsoever tonight.
That first pitch fast ball was down the middle--the right pitch to do that on.
I expect cleveland to take a lead soon.
One of these starters has a 5.06ERA and the other has a 9.13ERA and a career ERA of 7. So I would at least call them awful.
Don’t start nibbling.
Damn 2-0
So fucking predictable with this team. Smh
So much for lavishing praise on Ramirez's changeup. That's what Ramirez hit for a 2 run dinger. It's obvious he sees ERod's pitches well.
ERod is falling apart after a nice start.
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