Carlos Rodón throws a lot of pitches. He throws a lot of pitches because he strikes a lot of guys out. Last night he threw 110 pitches in six innings and struck out 12 guys. He allowed six hits and two walks and two of those runners scored but the Giants scored more and won the game. FanGraphs lists Kevin Gausman as the ML leader in WAR for pitchers (2.2). Rodón is right behind him (1.7) and leads baseball in strikeouts (53). I should mention that Gausman has walked only one batter in his 6 starts (38 IP, 147 TBF).
Austin Slater led off the game with a triple and scored on a sac fly from #2 hitter Mauricio Dubón. In the 3rd Slater singled with one out and Dubón hit a two-run homer, a moon shot to CF. Dubón led off the 6th with an infield single and later scored on an RBI hit from Darin Ruf. Ruf led off the 8th with a single and later scored after a Rockies error and a sac fly from Thairo Estrada. The Giants lead the NL in sacrifice flies (15) and are one behind the Boston Red Sox for the most in MLB.
Jake McGee has been struggling and he was given the 9th inning with an 8-2 lead. He gave up three runs with two outs (one scored on an error by Wilmer Flores) but finished the game. Let's hope he gets back on track soon. Alex Wood starts tonight (6:45 Pacific).
Go Giants!
--M.C.
4 comments:
The 110 pitches is the 2nd-most by any hurler this season. Apparently Gerrit Cole had a start with 114 pitches.
110 used to be relatively common. He throws a lot of fastballs. 6 inning is a short span for 110 pitches.
Yeah he gets a lot of long counts. He threw 35 balls and gave up 24 foul balls!
In Cole's 114-pitch start he struck out ten in 6-1/3 IP (25 batters). Rodon faced 24 batters.
From Baggs' story on The Athletic:
“As good as he’s been, as many dudes as he’s struck out, there’s probably more ceiling in there for Carlos,” Kapler said. “I think that starts with curbing some of his frustration that he feels throughout the game. Every pitch he delivers takes so much energy. If he can find ways to conserve some of that energy for every pitch that he’s gonna make deep into games, I actually think there’s an even better pitcher in there. He’s that good.”
Rodón’s reaction?
“He’s right,” he said. “I get emotional and frustrated. I showed that a little more today. I know I can be better at that instead of wasting energy on frustration on pitches that already happened and you can’t control. With a little stronger mindset, I think I can go deeper into games as I should.”
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