He learned the sweeping slider in Houston. McHugh threw it also,
Brillant job by Maton.
Lets get some fucking runs
I’ve seen the pitch, had never heard it called a sweeper.
As far as I know it’s just a slider with a particular shape that all the pitch design coaches love. I will say that what I see called a “sweeper” today doesn’t look that much like what I used to hear called a “sweeping slider” but that could very well be my own ignorance talking.
Attaboy Chas, get an inning started.
How much is Chas gonna get fined for partially covering the Oxy patch?
This article explains how ‘pitch type’ makes it into scoreboards, broadcasts, and gameday.
https://technology.mlblogs.com/mlb-pitch-classification-64a1e32ee079
This one describes the sweeper. I guess they had enough data to give it it’s own name.
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Astros on the corners, two out
How did he not score on that?
Laid off that one.
WooHoo…wild is the pitch!
Ball was scorched on one hop to a CFer playing shallow. Any decent throw and he was meat.
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Alright…got one back. Let’s throw up a zero
I like it.
This team needs more starting pitching. I realize I said that ad nauseam all last year.
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It would be nice for Bregman to find himself.
I guess we can’t call that a shiftfuck single anymore. Just a fuck one.
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Sigh. This got ugly fast.
This goose appears to be cooked.