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Pence and B.Crawford had to haze the rookie. Pence with the 2-R triple, Crawford with a double and a 2-R HR. Other than those guys, he was respectable. His stuff looked good when I saw him in the Future's Game this summer, but he did give up a couple runs in his 1 IP. He still looked solid with a nice delivery. He struck out 6 tonight in 4 IP I think?
His line:
4 IP 8 H 5 R 1 BB 6 K
At least the K rate is nice. He must have had decent stuff. Must be a lot of nerves for those guys in their 1st MLB game. I imagine a lot handle it better than others. I want to see what he had to say about his outing.
"The first inning was probably the best that I felt," Flaherty said. "I came out and I was able to throw strikes and get ahead and really execute and locate pitches where I needed to. Just as in those middle innings, I made mistakes to really good hitters and they did what they should with it." ~ Jack Flaherty
That's all I see he had to say about his outing. Apparently Matheny said the problem was location issues with the FB.