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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
That strike 3 he threw drew an audible 'holy ****' from me in real time.
Poor Dozier didn't have a chance. Swing at it and it rolls to 2b. Let it go and...well that happens. What do you do to a pitch at 97 that looks for all the world like it's gonna end up in the left hand batter's box then dives back at the last second to hit the black at the knees. All you can do is take and hope the umpire misses the call - probably not gonna happen often with Molina back there catching it while barely moving.
It was literally a perfect pitch and he fired it on 3-2. Guts of a burglar and exceptional execution. The swinging strike was overthrown and backed up on him; he got lucky that pitch didn't hover in the middle and get blasted. But that strike looking was just letter friggen perfect.
I had just gotten finished telling my wife that Dan blathering about how good Gant's stuff was was kinda silly since everyone throws 94 these days and Gant will occasionally hit 95 but is mostly just a pitch maker. Then he uncorked that thing and I just had to laugh.
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the dude has been nails. A big part of why we are winning. And that video shows why. How can you square up that pitch?