The Rockies send Jon Gray against the Yankees and CC Sabathia as the teams finish their short series. Gray pitches better than his ERA, with 72 strikeout and just 19 walks in 65 1/3 innings. He allowed a .446 slugging percentage with men on base, however, and power in that situation does a lot of damage. Sabathia owns a 2.20 ERA. He allows fewer line drives, but overall his LD/GB/FB percentages are in line with his career. What changed is Sabathia getting many more of those fly balls becoming pop ups, and very few leaving the park. Somehow, he is getting batters to swing under the ball. He might be releasing the ball from a higher arm angle to get more backspin in the vertical direction.
At the same time, across town, Danny Duffy faces Noah Syndergaard as the Royal play the Mets. Duffy allowed nine home runs in 54 innings, but with just 12 walks, seven of those were solo shots. Syndergaard also walked just 12 batters, but he did that in 85 innings, with just four home runs allowed. That’s a good way to keep an ERA under 2.00.
Finally, the Cardinals go for a sweep of the Cubs with Michael Wacha and Jake Arrieta on the mound. Wacha’s last four regular season starts against the Cubs were awful, 0-3 with a 10.89 ERA. He allowed 27 hits, 12 walks, and five home runs in 19 innings. The Cardinals managed to hurt Arrieta, too, tagging him with a 4.12 ERA in Jake’s last four regular season starts against St. Louis. Arrieta’s three-true outcomes in those games are very good, however.
Enjoy!
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