"The stadium radar gun had him at 95 mph a few times, even 96, which
made his splitter and slider all the more devastating, adding up to nine
strikeouts.
So much for all that confusing talk at the start of the season from Tanaka himself about how he would be changing his style, relying more on his sinker than his four-seam fastball.'
He didn't throw a lot of four seam fastballs.
" 'Larry (Rothschild) and I were talking about that,' catcher John Ryan
Murphy said after the game. '(Tanaka) had his good four-seamer, you
could tell he was really stepping on it. It showed.'
It’s funny, isn’t it, how the manager and players downplay the
importance of velocity when a pitcher doesn’t have his big fastball, but
their eyes practically light up when they see the high-octane gas
again."
Yes. It is funny. Please do not
challenge my sense of humor, to which the following joke will attest.
Knock knock. Who is there. An interrupting cow. An interrupting cow
who. Moo.
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