They played three wild-card games against the San Luis Cardinals and their starting pitcher threw a combined six innings. They used eight pitchers in the loss of Game 1, used nine pitches in the jungle, won 11-9 in Game 2, then used nine pitchers in the series for a 4-0 shutout on Friday in Game 3.
We have never seen anything like this before. Pedres saw 78% of his innings come from the bullpen, with manager Jesse Tingler taking full advantage of his extended 28-man playoff roster that included 14 pitchers. The neo-pitcher never shut out in a nine-inning game in a regular season or postseason, but Pedres, injured his two best starting pitchers and planned a bullpen game, not on an active roster for the series. All if three games in the series went. After Chris Padak and Zach Davis were both dismissed early, they did not plan bullpen games in the first two contests.
So the pitching has started? No, not really. After all, it wasn’t just the last posts ason that the dominant Washington Nationals thanked for four impressive starts in the World Series – and despite the worst bullpen IRA in the Major. And you could argue that the main decision of the Pedres-Cardinals series came in Game 2, when St. Louis manager Mike Shield knocked out starter Adam Dum Wainwright with a 4-1 to 4-1 lead. Yes, the bases were loaded and the Cardinals were out of that innings in which only one run would be awarded. But a quick hook forced Shieldt to pass by seven rescuers, and eventually Genesis Cabrera could not throw a strike; Giovanni Gallegos and Daniel Ponce de Leo gave up two home runs; And the captain’s sixth and seventh relievers dropped runs. If that game comes out differently, if Wainwright is allowed to go through the fourth-inning jam and be able to go into the depths of the game.
The bullpen strategy worked for Pedres for several reasons: they have a lot of good weapons out there, and they come in handy. It’s amazing how smart the manager looks when the players perform. Give credit to AJ Priler, general manager of Pedres, for adding bullpen depth to the trading deadline. Two pots were acquired in the trade on Friday: slider expert Stin Adams came with Seattle Miners catcher Austin Nola; Nearby Trevor Rosenthal arrived at the Kansas City Royals.
In Game 3, Adams had just one bat, but that was the biggest part of the night and enough to give him the win. After Colton Wong’s soft-to-left in the fifth inning and Fernando Tatis Jr.’s throwing error, Adams still came up against Paul Paul Goldsmith with a scoreless game. Adams underwent ACL surgery with Seattle late last season and was on the injured list when Praler received it. But Adams was getting close to returning, and Praler knew he had the most disrespectful slider in the game in 2019, when he had 51 strikeouts in 31 innings and the batsmen hit just 133 against the slider. Adams almost jumps off the mound when he delivers the pitch, which should be an unsettling scenario for a batter. He threw six sliders straight at Goldschmidt, two way from the plate, two foul and then the final one that stabilizes Goldschmidt, located fairly low and far away.
Tingler also got eight big pitches from the two kids, which could be in San Diego’s circulation next year. Lefty Adrian Morage on 21, five outs in the fourth and fifth, then 20-year-old Luis Patino threw a scoreless sixth, Jadeer Molina worked around the double and walked to get Dexter Fower to the flight to deep center field. Third out.
Morejon from Cuba, and Pinotino from Colombia, were part of Pedres’ international class in 2016, while ownership costs about 60 60 million for the extraordinary cost of young talent. (Pedres did better than his 3. 3.3 million pool allotment and paid dollar 1 million dollars under the rules at the time, which increased the cost of signing the million 1 million bonus by about $ 3 million.)
Emilio Pagan (a se fis ason no trade acquisition), Drew Pomeranz (a se fis ason no free-agent sign) and Rosenthal were unsuccessful without succeeding in the final three innings on Friday, with Rosenthal entering his side to end it.
So for the first time since beating the Atlanta Braves in the 1998 National League Championship Series, move on to the San Diego Postseason – and give us the series we all wanted: Pedres Vs. Dodgers, up-and-coming team N.L. Very fun to watch in front of West’s grandfather. The Bullpen strategy would be a bit more difficult to deploy in the Best-Five F-Five series without some of the best days, and we’ll find out if Danielson Lame Matt and Mike Clevinger are healthy enough to be active. (According to Pedro Gomez’s in-game report, Lamette is a possibility, and Clevinger is a very low probability.)
It will certainly be interesting to see how Tinger manages the series. Despite being the best of the five, there’s still a definite urgency in every game, and given the depth and dominance of the Dodgers ’own bullpen in the regular season, you don’t want to let L.A. break the open game early in the game. Facing the struggle to start the clock and the task of leaving late at night against the Dodgers Bullpen. In other words: make it a habit to give six … seven … eight reliefs in this Pedres Play with F games. We may see more of them next week.
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