Originally posted by GwynnInTheHall
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Chichton looked good but it seems there was a lot more hard contact made on his pitches (especially Tatis' one hop liner to SS). He gave up two hits in .2 IP. The strike 3 on Mateo was a really nice 2 seamer though. Plus they pulled him with two outs - any thoughts on why? He didn't pitch the day before...
Soria - first pitch to Machado was 93 FB where he missed his low target and left it uppermiddle / middle that was hit hard to RF warning track, Hosmer pitch one was a nice 94 FB that hit the catcher's low spot for a GB 3-1 out. First pitch to PHam he missed his spot and left it up in the zone over the middle - he got lucky Pham only fouled it off. Then 94 low and OS, 93 low, 93 low and OS called for a strike (bad call by ump), 94 inside missed his spot badly, 79 missed badly OS with slider for ball 4. Myers nice 79 CB KLooking, nice 75 CB but missed low, 94 FB hit OS corner but didn't get the call, 81 slider pretty far OS but Myers swung and whiffed, 74 slider missed spot and was inside now full count, 94 FB hit his low OS spot but Myers lined hard but just foul to RF, stillfullcount, 82 missed really, really bad wild pitch for ball 4 and bounced it off of two backstops. I don't see how they have any confidence in Soria after that outing.
Ginkel pitching to Campusano - nice 96 FB with 2 seam mvmt,another 96 nice pitch KSWG, then 97 touch low but ump gave him the call for K3Looking... He looked really good on his 3 fastballs so I am not sure why they didn't leave Ginkel in for the 9th(he didn't pitch the day before but did pitch Apr 1 and Apr 2) but went with Devenski instead.
I have to think they have confidence in the old vet Devenski for the 9th, at this point in the season.
edit - Devenski had an outstanding spring training camp so it's not like this came out of nowhere... 7IP 7K, 0.00 ERA 1.00 WHIP
Damn, Devenski is only 30. Seems like he's been around forever...
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