He just loses it so quickly.
And now we are going to pitch Cronin who is very raw.
Taccolini hasn’t looked the same since his blood clot and rib removal a couple of years ago. He’s gained some weight and his endurance isn’t what it was.
He is starting because there just aren’t a lot of options with the injuries to Campbell and McKinney. Ideally, Taccolini would be a set-up man or a closer. He’ll walk some, but he’s good about getting groundballs to erase some of those, just like he did it in the first.
I like Cronin’s upside. He hasn’t pitched a lot this year, but he has typically been pretty good when he does. He gets a lot of strikeouts for someone who doesn’t throw real hard.
I was looking over an opponents massage board earlier this year when Tac was pitching. One guy said, “Good Lord. The Arkansas pitcher is a 40 year old air conditioner repairman.”
Got to admit that I laughed.
And then Cronin punches out the side, including their best hitter. Ya just never know.
94 mph. That’s throwing pretty hard Matt.
Yeah, I noted that in the live blog for this game. The highest I’d seen from Matt before that pitch was 92, and usually 88-90. His arm is fresh, which could explain that kind of jump late in the year.