Thursday, May 22, 2008

Dice-K In Progress

A snapshot of today's action:

Through four innings, Daisuke Matsusaka has already walked 5 batters (and given up 3 hits). Somehow, some way, our man has only allowed one run.

How is this possible? Maybe he pitches out of the zone on purpose and trusts that major league lineups will have enough impatient hitters to bail him out? Maybe his famed gyroball somehow outsmarts all SABR-metric analysis of baseball and pitching over the last twenty years? Maybe he has some sort of deal with the devil?

Dice-K is making me question everything I know about pitching.

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