A changeup to Brantley that caught too much of the plate scored Altuve for the Astros’ seventh run on the day. That same hard slider at 86 got a swinging strike from Altuve to start off the fifth, but then Gilbert tried to go to it again and Altuve was able to tattoo it for a double. I’m starting to suspect that harder slider is actually a cutter that’s being mislabeled by Gameday, as it consistently lands higher in the zone, more where a traditional cutter would end up. As we saw in his last outing, Gilbert was throwing two distinct sliders: one in the 81-83 range, and one in the 86-88 range. Gilbert would give up another run in the fourth on a solo home run to Taylor Jones, again missing his spot with an 82 MPH slider that wound up too much in the middle of the plate, but was able to limit the damage from there and even landed the curveball for a couple of strikes, which is encouraging. One bad pitch, three runs, and a 5-0 lead for the Astros. Gilbert decided to start Alvarez off with a changeup that unfortunately landed in the middle of the top of the zone, and Alvarez was able to muscle it into the accursed Crawford Boxes. impression all day, chopped 98 from Gilbert that caught too much of the plate off the mound to score Wilson, and then a walk to Correa where Gilbert threw two good pitches that were both ruled balls to start the at-bat put two on for Yordan Alvarez with two out. Jose Altuve, who was doing his best Vlad Guerrero Sr. The thing about the Astros hitters is they will punish every single mistake a pitcher makes, and that includes Triple-A callup Jake Wilson, who managed a triple on 96 middle-middle from Gilbert despite running with the speed and conviction of a runaway bounce house. Gilbert’s second inning was even better, a tidy 1-2-3, 11-pitch affair, and could have been even faster if a borderline, well-placed slider against Gurriel had been ruled strike three instead of ball one.ĭespite pitching much better than his last outing, a few bad pitches in the third inning hurt Gilbert. He threw a couple really nice changeups to Brantley, one of the few right-handed hitters in the lineup, and generally was spotting his secondaries in a way he just wasn’t able to in his last outing. He made a mistake on his very first pitch of the ballgame, gifting Altuve 96 in the middle of the plate for a hard-hit double Altuve would come around to score on two more groundouts, but Gilbert did a nice job of mixing his pitches, throwing the changeup and the fastball five times each, while mixing in three sliders and even one curveball. Logan Gilbert’s final line of nine runs allowed over five innings looks hideous, but truthfully, he pitched better than that line. There is not a lot left to be excited about in this season but seeing the race to 30 between Seager and Haniger should make for some fun watching down the stretch.
That’s Haniger’s 28th of the year as he prises the team lead away from Seager. Please enjoy this lone Mariners highlight of the day: Supposedly Kyle was running faster than the wind, if you believe this tweet, but also, he was running in Baby’s First Ballpark, and was thrown out easily from left.Īfter that, it was a long string of nothing from the Mariners batters against Odorizzi, with the only batters reaching on walks, and most striking out-eight for Odorizzi, with only one run of damage against him on a solo shot from Mitch Haniger. A Ty France walk moved Seager to second, who then inexplicably tried to score on an Abraham Toro single, and Taylor Jones threw him out.
The Mariners had a chance to score in the first, when Kyle Seager nicely ensured the Mariners wouldn’t be no-hit when he popped a curveball into right field (if you will recall, last night the no-hit fear persisted until the fourth inning, so we thank Seags for getting that particular fear out of the way quickly today). Today against the Mariners, however, Odorizzi’s K/9 was almost 13, as once again Mariners batters flailed and ultimately failed against Odorizzi’s less-than-dastardly 91-92 MPH fastball at the top of the zone combined with his curveball and splitter-which wasn’t particularly spectacular but was plenty effective against the crew of soggy pool noodle-wielding Mariners batters. Jake Odorizzi has a K/9 this season of 7.54, which puts him just a little ahead of current Mariner Tyler Anderson on the overall leaderboard, to give you a sense of how whelmed to be by that number.
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