Tuesday, May 26, 2009

David Price's First Start

I watched Price's start against the Indians and it was a mixed bag. He is the only starter I've seen throw 97-98 on most of his fastballs throughout a game and when he spotted it the hitters looked awful. Unfortunately he threw way too many balls and the Indians kept fouling off pitches, I don't think I've seen so many foul balls this year off of one pitcher, which ran his count up to 100 after just 3.1 innings. He was also getting squeezed pretty badly on at least 2 of the five walks he gave up. This looks like perhaps the worst Price can be, which was still 6 Ks in 3.1 innings only giving up 2 runs off of 5 walks and 4 hits. A WHIP killer to be sure but the dude is a strike out machine even on his worst day. I wouldn't be surprised to see him throw multiple no-hitters when he has good command as he made quite a few of the Indian hitters look pathetic on a number of pitches, he was just very inconsistent in this start. I am excited to watch his next start later this week at home against Minnesota where hopefully he gets some of the borderline strikes that were called balls today.

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