Diamondbacks 5, Padres 1: If you placed money on “Some time in 2018 Clay Buchholz will pitch a complete game, allowing only one run on five hits, getting the win for a playoff contending team” before the season began you would’ve been arrested for suspected time-traveling and/or placed in a rubber room so you could not do any harm to others or to yourself. Yet it happened. He got five runs of support in the first inning, thanks in part to a David Peralta three-run homer, and other than allowing a Hunter Renfroe solo shot in the eighth, he was lights-out. Not too bad for a guy everyone thought was burnt toast not too long ago.
Speaking of resilience.
I'm glad for Clay, but I sure wonder what changed for him! Maybe the heat of the spotlights in Boston and Philly was too much, but with nobody paying attention in AZ, he's thriving?
You have to understand pitching
And adjustments
And health
Resilience? Yeah, of course that is part of it.
Good story in the Globe about Eovaldi's transformation. The cutter that WAS, then wasnt (after a trade). Now it is again(after Eovaldi suggested it be revived).
Has gone from throwing 70% fastballs to much less than 50.
Yep, pitchers often have more than 1 or even 2 lives.
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