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Cruz scored twice on the night, and Buxton homered, too. The Twins even managed four runs for only the second time in nine games. The last time the Twins started the season 7-15, in fact, was in 2016, a dismal season that resulted in Terry Ryan's firing as general manager and the hiring of Derek Falvey to run the team. Only in 2012, when they opened 6-16, have the Twins started the season worse than this one. Dodgers starter Kenta Maeda is surrendering too many home runs and looks nothing like the pitcher who finished third in 2016 NL Rookie of the Year voting.
Even if they do go for hits, they’re likely singles. You can pitch around a single, but I’ve yet to hear of an instance of someone pitching around a home run. You’ll notice that Maeda missed his east-west location on each of these pitches, and he just doesn’t have the type of fastball that can afford to be in the spots these three were. That, more than anything, has hurt Maeda this year. He has been up in the zone too frequently, and hitters haven’t missed when he has served them a cookie.
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When Jorge Alcala finally relieved him, the young righthander forced in another run by beaning Jordan Luplow with a 99-mph fastball. Kenta Maeda surrendered six extra-base hits, including three mammoth home runs, and then the Twins' embattled bullpen somehow made things worse. The baseball drifted and drifted toward the left-field corner, its flight awakening the Dodgers dugout. Kenta Maeda sprinted out of the batter’s box but slowed as he approached second base. With one swing, he launched his team’s first home run of the season and created the year’s first moment of unbridled joy.
The first chart is from 2016, while the second represents what he has done this year. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. About Baseball Reference Batting Glossary, Pitching Glossary, Wins Above Replacement Explainer, WAR data archive, BR Data Coverage, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, ... "Whatever I was doing last year was not the best version of me," he said. He’ll try to find that version in Los Angeles on his one-year contract. It was the first home run of the season for the Dodgers, who to this moment have outscored the Padres 23-0 in three games this season.
Dodgers pitcher Kenta Maeda homers in first MLB game, singlehandedly outscoring Padres
Clayton Kershaw thrust his arms skyward and howled. The Padres are the first team in history to be shut out of its first three games. When he has driven the ball down and below the zone, he has produced good results. Thanks to Statcast, we can highlight plate appearance results by location. Here’s what Maeda’s chart looks like this season.
Maeda is a 6 ft 1 in , 185 lb right-handed pitcher. He throws from a three-quarters arm slot and his Japanese-style windup features a slight pause at the top of his leg kick. On August 18, Maeda pitched a no-hitter through 8 innings against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Kenta Maeda’s shoulders slumped and his body language betrayed his disappointment after José Ramírez took him deep in the first inning on Tuesday. Contact king Luis Arraez uncharacteristically flailed and missed at a pitch well out of the zone in the eighth inning and flung his arms in frustration as he walked toward the dugout. This isn't the first time Keegan Cook, who was hired as Gophers volleyball coach last week, has stepped into a program with major success and expectations to do even better. Nelson's teams were 10-3 in his career when he tripled, and this one drove in Buxton. If he's looking for signs that a turnaround is coming, c'mon, could anything be more startling than a Nelson Cruz triple? CLEVELAND – The Twins are playing so badly right now, they are going to get somebody hurt.
Specifically, his fly-ball rate is up to 53.4% this season after sitting at 35.7% last year. A season-long fly-ball rate north of 50% is guaranteed to be among the league leaders, if not the highest in the majors. Starting with the 2010 season, there have been five instances of a pitcher posting a fly-ball rate of 50% or higher. And yes, that is an arbitrary endpoint, but the sample is large enough for us to say with certainty that Maeda is allowing fly balls at a rate that typically leads the league. "The point of the conversation was, the fact that I think our guys have played hard. And it's been about as tough a stretch as I've ever seen in professional baseball," Baldelli said.
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