May 30, 2006
Tipping Point
Cliff Lee think he may be tipping his pitches (second item):
He allowed a home run to Jim Thome on a hanging curveball with an 0-and-2 count. Paul Konerko and Juan Uribe homered on fastballs, each on the 10 th pitch of the atbat. Konerko first fouled off five pitches, Uribe six.
"Normally, when you go through a bad stretch, you’re walking guys and getting behind (in the count). I’m not doing that," Lee said. "For some reason right now, I throw a pitch to get an out and they foul it off.
"Today, especially, the ‘out’ pitches kept getting fouled off. I don’t know if they had my pitches — if they knew what was coming — or what."
He did throw a very high percentage of strikes in the game for such a bad start.
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Is 'tipping my pitches' becoming the latest fashion for pitchers? Haven't we heard that much more recently?
From the tv broadcast, it looked more like, and tv blabber Rick Manning noted at least a few times, that Lee was constantly high in the zone and middle of the plate.