Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 19, 2007
Webb Dominates

Before bed last night, I caught a minute of the Diamondbacks game. The announcers praised Webb's changeup, noting that he gained control of it last night. The results were a career high thirteen strikeouts in eight innings. The Arizona Republic expands on that story line:

The mistake took a potential victory away from Webb, who struck out a career-high 13 in an overpowering performance. After allowing three singles and a run in the first inning, everything clicked for Webb, who began mixing his pitches with devastating results, at one point striking out six consecutive batters.

Mostly throwing his sinker to get ahead in the count, he'd occasionally finish them off with a change-up, like he did to get Khalil Greene swinging in the first. Or get them with his slow curve, the pitch he threw to Adrian Gonzalez in the third. Or he'd keep coming at them with his sinker, which he did to strike out Terrmel Sledge in the first.

Arizona won the game in extra innings. David Wells pitched seven strong innings, although he did walk a batter with the bases loaded in the seventh to put Arizona briefly up 2-1. Wells, in my mind, would be the least likely pitcher to issue a bases loaded walk.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:51 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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