Friday, May 24, 2019

School Time


Lucas Giolito’s recent run of strong pitching—he’s 6-1 on the season after last night’s 4-0 complete-game shutout of the Astros—leads to the question, is Giolitio old-school or new-school?

 

Listening to him talk about how he changed his approach in the offseason, you’d definitely say new-school; I’m pretty sure Giolito mentioned “centering his core” or words to that effect.  Whatever, he attacked the zone yesterday, throwing 107 pitches (82 for strikes) and netting nine strikeouts against four singles and a walk.  I actually heard Giolito say after the game that he took a look at his pitch count in the seventh inning and felt he could throw a complete game.

 

Now, that’s old-school.

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