‘Basics for Baseball’
courtesy of ‘Jinx!’
If you couldn’t find yourself an AM radio or don’t follow any baseball writers on Twitter, allow me to re-cap young Strasburg’s first outing:
Total Pitch Count – 25
Total Strikes – 15
Total Hits – 2
Total K’s – 2
Plus — his first career strikeout was against Miguel Cabrera with a 98 MPH fastball on a full-count.
Way to go, kid. Now let’s see if your teammates can back you up with some run support after your first two innings.
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Of course, those two K’s don’t officially count…but it was a nice outing for his first time. Those two K’s came on a pair of nice curveballs, which I didn’t think he would throw much this early in the spring. Definitely more to come!
They might not officially count … but it sure counts as a moral booster!
And it was nice of MLB to get rid of their MLB.TV local blackout restrictions.