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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
He threw a lot of two seamers over the heart of the plate. I'm just glad they missed them.
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That's why I say he was tricking guys. He did a nice job of going with fastballs in breaking ball counts and breaking balls in fastball counts. Even a sub-standard pitcher doesn't need much of a timing advantage to draw enough weak contact to survive for 6 innings. They were missing mediocre 2-seamers because his pitch sequencing was unconventional.
He'll get away with that for a few weeks. But he can't live on that forever. He'll either need to sharpen up more (seems a big ask at his age) or they'll start to strafe him once they decipher his 'new' pattern of pitching backwards.