10/4/2023 0 Comments Kershaw entropyHunter Pence should get all of those calls, really. I mean, look at these awful, wild pitches. It was one of those eight-inning, two-earned run outings where the pitcher really had to work around his partial dominance. Brandon Belt hit a ball that would have been out in 29 other ballparks, and there were far more line drives than you regularly see in a Kershaw start. It's not just that he allowed homers to Madison Bumgarner (!) and Ehire Adrianza (!!), but he was missing with location throughout the day. This was the only one of the five walks that I watched live, and it came in a game where Kershaw was vulnerable. Then it will be your favorite walk of the bunch, too. This is easily my favorite walk of the bunch, and not just because I'm a raging Giants homer. You may remember an outfielder by the name of Roger Cedeno. It just had too much movement, and it wasn't received convincingly enough for home plate umpire, Gary Cederstrom. That, from Brooks Baseball, suggests that not only was it a strike, it wasn't an especially borderline strike. I mean, your mind starts racing when Kershaw throws an awful pitch like this: Never underestimate the silent worries of Opening Day. Maybe he'd walk a batter in the first two innings of next season, too, and the horrors would start up again. It would be a wait-'til-next-year season, with an offseason of worrying. Why, that's the kind of walk rate that would lead to think pieces and analyses. So, even though you know, instinctively, that a walk is just a walk, Kershaw's BB/9 for the young season is suddenly 5.4. There's a reason why Randy Johnson is more concerned with camera equipment than baseball equipment. But there's a reason why Greg Maddux is golfing and Pedro Martinez is broadcasting. There's no reason why the brilliance shouldn't continue. It's Opening Day, and you don't know what kind of season Kershaw is going to have. Kershaw to allow a walk in 2016? Walk No. It's time to study them for future generations. Or, to be precise, as many walks as Kershaw has allowed all season in 86⅔ innings. They all had games where they just couldn't find their release point and walked five batters or more. Some of them are All-Stars, Cy Young winners, and rotation leaders. Here are some pitchers who have had five-walk games this year: We're in the middle of one of the greatest stretches of individual pitching in baseball history, and it shouldn't keep getting better, but it does. Someone sneezed while writing the code to his season, and we all have to pretend like this kind of season is actually possible. Even I could do that.Īnother way to put it is, ha ha ha, it's May 31, and Clayton Kershaw has five walks. He let five hitters reach first base without even putting a ball in play. He had a goal, and he could not realize that goal. One way to put it is that five times out of 309, Kershaw failed. Of the remaining 258 batters, five drew a walk. All of them wanted to help their respective teams. All of them came up with hopes and dreams of reaching base. Clayton Kershaw, first of his name, breaker of spirits, father of curveballs, has faced 309 batters this season.
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