![]() ![]() He did mention that he’d like to see better command of the changeup, as evidenced in the pitch chart above. We knew he wasn’t a high-strikeout or low-walk guy, but he had good stuff, and that stuff worked.Īfter the game, Scott Servais called this everything we could have asked for in a debut: five innings, just the one run, and composure with runners on base and big-name power hitters like Tatis, Soto, and Machado at the plate. This was the good version of as-advertised: good movement on the fastball, good ground-outs, not a lot of whiffs. Hancock threw mostly sinkers (59%), averaging 93 mph- he hit a maximum velocity of 95 in the third inning, and was down to 90-91 by the fifth. Honestly, it felt like he walked more than that, probably because one came around to score (thanks to Ha-Seong Kim stealing two consecutive bases in the first inning he stole another in the third). Hancock gave up only two hits, walked three, and struck out three. Two very different proud-mom events! Tonight, both pitched like they belong in the big leagues: Hancock went 5.1 innings to Darvish’s 6, and each gave up one run.įirst big-league punchout for #SeaUsRise /2Zqvi7xIaf- Seattle Mariners August 10, 2023 When Darvish made his professional debut in Japan in 2005, Hancock was graduating from kindergarten. The Padres started eternal craftsman Yu Darvish. The Mariners started Emerson Hancock in his afore-referenced debut. The first six innings of this game were a juxtaposition of pitchers. Usually we just want a good outcome, for our own gratification, but today we’ll take a good effort, for the sake of someone else. For that reason, we have a little more grace to offer, more generosity. ![]() We split our minds, thinking of the day’s game not only in context of our team’s season, but also in the context of one player’s career. We attend to players’ previous life experiences more than we might otherwise: whether and where they went to college, where their family lives, hardships they faced, adjustments they made in the minors. Youth face-to-face with age, experience with freshness, anxiety with composure.
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