Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
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.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:03 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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Is 'tipping my pitches' becoming the latest fashion for pitchers? Haven't we heard that much more recently?

Posted by: Peder at May 30, 2006 09:03 AM

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.

Posted by: Dave at May 30, 2006 01:11 PM
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