April 24, 2015

Emotional Pitcher

Yordano Ventura talks about controlling his emotions after the Royals win 3-2 over the White Sox in 13 innings:

“The last three outings, my emotions have spilled over and gotten the better of me,” Ventura said. “I’m an emotional pitcher, but I need to work on controlling them. I want to do that, I certainly want to avoid the results, games ending the way [the past three] have. I want to use the emotions to pitch well, but not go over the top and have these kinds of incidents.”

But Ventura is also picking up a reputation for losing his cool on the field, and now perhaps, unavoidably, it’s on his mind.

“Yeah, I’ve thought about that, and some of my actions are certainly putting me in a less-than-favorable light, as well as the team,” Ventura said. “That’s important to me, and I need to work on it and be better.”

Ned Yost went on to say that opponents are trying to exploit this, to get Ventura out of the game.

By they way, I never thought the Royals would be the most bad ass team of 2015.

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