Roki Sasaki's latest pitching performance attracted significant scrutiny, demonstrating a mix of shaky beginnings and steady progression. While initial innings featured struggles against a tight strike zone and frequent walks, Roki managed to limit runs, ultimately completing five innings with respectable statistics. Despite the promising numbersâa notable high strike rateâhis difficulties with off-speed pitches and a lack of offensive support left unanswered questions. Meanwhile, Ben Casparius faced a disastrous outing, underscoring overarching problems within the team's batting capabilities during the game against the Cubs, resulting in a 16-0 loss.
Every Roki Sasaki start seems to be an event in terms of scrutiny and today will be no different as the results were good but the process to getting there was shaky.
Things didn't necessarily start well for Roki in the 1st, as the umpire was showing a tight zone and he got behind every batter he faced.
After that Roki settled in. He threw 23 of 30 pitches for strikes, getting a clean 4th and giving up a pair of two-strike singles in the 5th but working out of it.
A start that looks a lot better on paper than it actually was, but hey, take what you can get: 5 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 3 K, 81 Pitches.
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