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Yes and no. As junkballer said in the game recap thread, when he was hit, he was hit hard. But he threw more than 70% of his pitches for strikes, an obscene total for Fausto. And he definitely had a different approach. He threw quite a few two-seamers inside to lefties, some coming back and hitting the corner (good), and some running back right over the heart of the plate (bad – Aburey’s hits came on these pitches). He also threw a ton of sliders to lefties. They weren’t very good, but he didn’t really get hurt on those. The above pitching patterns are very unusual for Fausto – and probably good.

He had a 7 or 8-batter stretch that was pretty much one ground ball after another. He really had the sinker going downward (and not horizontal) at that point, and he threw a few real good changeups. All in all, it was good, but…you know. You’d have to see this over a multi-start stretch next year before anyone got real excited.

by TribeJay on Sep 26, 2009 10:14 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

He was also changing speeds quite a bit — and he got his “slower” stuff over the plate relatively consistently. The Orioles also helped him by swinging at pitches that sank well out of the strike zone — but, that may be because Fausto was mixing it up pretty well and mostly throwing strikes, so they coudn’t just lay off his pitches.

by peter m on Sep 26, 2009 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking from listening to most of the game and watching that clip. Kinda wish I had time to go watch the archived game.

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