There was a little bit of variance to the velocity of the breaking ball — there was an 83-84 mph breaking ball and 78-80.
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We're seeing lack of command of his breaking ball; matter of fact, he said his feel for the breaking ball goes all of a sudden.
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But then he left that breaking ball up to (Galvis).
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Had a nice feel for the changeup and breaking ball.
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And her breaking ball, says Ms. Bricker, is "pretty good."
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"He hung a breaking ball," Indians manager Terry Francona said.
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"His breaking ball has gotten a lot better," Falvey said.
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"I sat on his breaking ball, his best pitch," Bonifacio said.
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But as he's grown into his body, his breaking ball has developed.
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He's got a pretty good breaking ball; he's got a good arm.
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And then some poor breaking ball has gone a billion feet away.
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He had a really good breaking ball, good changeup and was impressive.
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We've always liked his stuff, a good fastball, a good breaking ball.
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Maybe not in height, but same types of pitches, breaking ball, fastball, located.
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"He really had his breaking ball," Astros manager A.J. Hinch said of McCullers.
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Romano then struck out Derek Dietrich on a breaking ball in the dirt.
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You could tell they were making appoint not to chase the breaking ball.
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He had good command of his breaking ball and made us look bad.
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However, even that pitch wasn't necessarily a bad one — a low breaking ball.
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"I hung a breaking ball and he took advantage of it," Gray said.
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Healy then drove a 0-1 breaking ball into the left-field seats.
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Ozuna's first homer of the season came on a full-count breaking ball.
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He was clipped in the foot by a breaking ball in the dirt.
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He really controlled his fastball well and (had a) good breaking ball, good changeup.
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He hung a breaking ball for the home run, but he was much better.
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He also brought his changeup into the game and had a good breaking ball.
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Normally, the bangs would mean a breaking ball or off-speed pitch was coming.
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Wacha said his breaking ball wasn't effective and forced him to compromise his pitches.
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Perhaps it was a breaking ball, he said, because he rarely whiffed on fastballs.
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A pitcher who throws hard may lack the feel for spinning a breaking ball.
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But really good, I thought he had a really good changeup and good breaking ball.
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He started fastball, breaking ball, he kind of went back and forth, (mixed in) changeups.
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It was an elevated breaking ball, and again, he put a good swing on it.
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His breaking ball was particularly sharp, as he obtained a number of strikeouts off it.
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That gets in a hitter's head, 'This guy has a breaking ball that he'll throw.
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Ergo, it would make more sense for the Rockies to prioritize a harder breaking ball.
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That common breaking-ball pitch actually dates to the early 1900s, well before Graham's time.
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Buxton hit a Kelvin Herrera breaking ball to spark the ninth inning go-ahead rally.
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"Sometimes guys just get caught in between—between the fastball and the breaking ball," Jacoby said.
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"Breaking ball, 27-23.25 and he had thrown me a couple of fastballs away," Longoria said.
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"His fastball had some life and his breaking ball had some depth," manager Rick Renteria said.
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Arizona reliever Archie Bradley then struck out Stanton, who swung at an 82 mph breaking ball.
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"I meant to bounce it," Kennedy said of the breaking ball Martinez hit in the sixth.
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The situations don't faze him, and he's got 21 with the feel for a breaking ball.
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He had the fastball, four-seamer, two-seamer, working both sides there, slider, breaking ball, change.
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An opposing pitcher hangs a breaking ball, and he tries to land it on the moon.
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He's got swing-and-miss stuff after that, whether it's the split or the breaking ball, changeup.
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Castellanos then hoisted a hanging breaking ball over the left field wall to make it 5-0.
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Wolters worked the count to 2-2, and then Verrett threw a breaking ball in the dirt.
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He received a loud ovation from those whose stayed when he showed a 53 mph breaking ball.
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"But if you can throw a breaking ball, you don't really need that much speed," she says.
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After doubling off Wainwright in the fourth, Bird hooked a breaking ball foul before getting a walk.
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"He's got a great arm, a live fastball and a good breaking ball," manager John Gibbons said.
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Drury made it 4-1 by drilling a 0-2 breaking ball over the left field fence.
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This time he struck him out with a nasty breaking ball to cap a 2-1 win.
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He used his power sink and breaking ball to get a ground out, pop out and fly out.
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"He threw a ton of strikes, pitched in, and used his breaking ball," said Cleveland manager Terry Francona.
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"He's got a great fastball, so for me, I can never look for a breaking ball," Thompson said.
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A bang on the trash can typically indicated a changeup or breaking ball was coming, The Athletic said.
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While Hinch was praising Cole's fastball, all but one of Cole's strikeouts Sunday came on a breaking ball.
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He just left the breaking ball up just enough barely for me to get it over Aaron's head.
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Altherr crushed a hanging breaking ball from Ross Stripling for a two-run homer to tie the score.
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I got him to chase a couple, but then after that he wasn't chasing the breaking ball down.
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Harris threw a first-pitch breaking ball to LeMahieu, who bounced it slowly to Carlos Correa at short.
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"He got a breaking ball mistake and he hammered it," Reds manager Bryan Price said of Duvall's home run.
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"Well, I faced him last night and he threw me a first pitch breaking ball," Turner said of Jeffress.
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It looked like he had a little deception, nice little breaking ball, he could move the ball all around.
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Gregorius made it 5-1 in the fifth by lifting a first-pitch breaking ball into the second deck.
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Calling it a breaking-ball is almost unfair, but right now, it might be the best pitch in baseball.
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"They did a good job of hitting the breaking ball and fouled off a lot of good pitches," Hill said.
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"He was getting his breaking ball over strikes, keeping the ball down in the strike zone," manager Dave Roberts said.
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Cabrera ambushed a slow hanging breaking ball thrown by RHP Hishashi Iwakuma and smoked it into the left field seats.
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His cutter was really working today and his sinker and he would throw an occasional change-up and breaking ball.
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His cutter was really working today and his sinker, and he would throw an occasional change-up and breaking ball.
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"He gave up some hits but the breaking ball to Franco is what cost him," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said.
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One was by David Ortiz on a breaking ball on Friday and the other was by Christian Vazquez on Sunday.
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Another mistake on a breaking ball for a home run, but got us into the sixth inning with an opportunity.
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Different shapes to his breaking ball, he had a tight slider and used his curveball, and also spotted his fastball.
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He brought with him a nickname — "100-Mile Giles" — that belied his best weapon: a breaking ball like few others.
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He struck out George Springer and Jose Altuve in the frame, the latter on a full-count, high breaking ball.
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In high school, he didn't have a great breaking ball; he struggled with consistency and didn't throw a ton of strikes.
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His breaking ball and his changeup, he did a good job throwing them ahead in the count, behind in the count.
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Gordon tracked a breaking ball and sneaked it over the right field wall for his first home run in 15 games.
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"Cody gets up 0-2, then he hung a breaking ball, and that was the ballgame," Indians manager Terry Francona said.
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They're able to box out some pitches on him unless he can get a breaking ball over behind in the count.
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Adduci drilled a hanging breaking ball from Romano over the right-field wall to make it 3-0 in the fourth.
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"He's kind of a different style of closer, from the standpoint, the breaking ball, the change," Miami manager Don Mattingly said.
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"It just seems, at times, he's in between the fastball and breaking ball," Yankees Manager Joe Girardi said before Friday's game.
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Then, on the final pitch, he grounded a full-count breaking ball down the third-base line for the winning hit.
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Leonys Martin opened the fifth by hitting 1-2 breaking ball from CC Sabathia (1-1) into the right-center field seats.
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I got a good pitch — (Chicago starter Kyle Hendricks) hung me a breaking ball — and I was able to hit it out.
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On his 2352th and final pitch, McCullers got Matt Wieters on a breaking ball to leave the bases loaded in the fifth.
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Jose Ramirez gave the Indians a 3-0 lead after he sent Stroman's breaking ball through the gap in the defensive shift.
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I mean, he's throwing 100 and still throwing his breaking ball 85, he just ain't throwing it right where he wants it.
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And Sanchez greedily tried to throw out Bradley advancing to third after Sandy Leon swung over a breaking ball in the dirt.
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Kelly then bounced a breaking ball that eluded catcher Christian Vazquez, and Gardner raced home to tie the score at 4-4.
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Four pitches into the eighth, Cain connected off Miller and sent a 2-1 breaking ball over the right-center field fence.
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He looked like his fastball — I don't even know what the gun said — but he was crisp, dotting his fastballs, good breaking ball.
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"He's got plus stuff and is really tough on left-handers with his breaking ball that is hard to pick up," Hinch said.
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My breaking ball later in the game was able to get a couple of guys swinging and overall it was a great day.
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His breaking ball was better after the second (inning), his fastball was at the knees and on the corners, he pitched really well.
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Hicks then hit a full-count breaking ball down the right field line and off the foul pole for a 4-1 lead.
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LHP David Price, out with an elbow injury, threw another bullpen session Wednesday and still hasn't thrown a breaking ball off a mound.
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Left-hander Kyle Ryan was on the mound and he fanned Polanco on an outside 1-2 breaking ball to end that inning.
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"He had traffic right from the first inning, and he couldn't find the feel for his breaking ball," Indians manager Terry Francona said.
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"What makes him successful is his fastball; it's not his breaking ball," said Rivera, who then motioned with his hand near his chest.
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Waldstein: Justin Verlander is looking good so far, especially with that called third strike breaking ball to Joc Pederson in the second inning.
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Now that Storen plays in Canada, it is worth mentioning how he learned to throw a breaking ball: by using a hockey puck.
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"He threw so many strikes with his fastball and then he had his breaking ball and changeup to go with it," Francona said.
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"Early on, he had a tough time finding his breaking ball, but we didn't make him pay for it," Indians manager Terry Francona said.
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"He's got power stuff, a really hard breaking ball, and sometimes that can be tough for a catcher to block with consistency," Avila said.
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Following his great escape, Urena breezed through the ninth, finishing it in style by whiffing Howie Kendrick on a breaking ball in the dirt.
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Andujar gave the Yankees their 13th win in 14 games when he blooped a 1-2 breaking ball from Cody Allen into right field.
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Hector Rondon relieved Grimm, and Perez greeted Rondon by slamming a hanging breaking ball into the left field bleachers for a three-run homer.
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He threw a breaking ball, maybe a little elevated, but it was a soft liner to left field and (Descalso) got a base hit.
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He threw 14 pitches to four hitters in the sixth and ended it by striking out 2B Tim Beckham looking on a breaking ball.
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I was really looking for a breaking ball, and he tried to throw a fastball by me, and luckily I got it pretty good.
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With two outs in the bottom of the fifth, Pederson nailed a breaking ball for a home run that tied the score 1-1.
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He immediately allowed a single to Justin Turner but then went to his strength with a devastating breaking ball that struck out David Freese.
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Giolito walked Voit with one out and Gary Sanchez with two outs, but he escaped by striking out Didi Gregorius with his breaking ball.
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Loaisiga was perfect through four innings, dominating the young Phillies with a lively fastball, a sharp and deceptive breaking ball and an occasional changeup.
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"He's got the sharp breaking ball," said Howard, who is currently a partner at SeventySix Capital, a venture capital firm based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
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So I got back on top of it and was able to throw strikes and get the breaking ball over a little bit more.
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He entered the eighth with 84 pitches and ended it quickly by getting Jackie Bradley Jr. with a breaking ball for his 10th strikeout.
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"Command of his stuff, moved the fastball around, pitched inside, good breaking ball, he pitched very well," Mets manager Terry Collins said of Nola's performance.
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That one came on a breaking ball that hung up in the strike zone, but the homer by Vazquez was a fastball on a platter.
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It is a signature habit of Beltre's when he eagerly attacks a breaking ball, and he said he was too old to change it now.
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Trout stepped to the plate in the sixth inning and launched an 86 mph breaking ball just above the knees over the wall in left-center.
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"Early on, he had a tough time finding his breaking ball, but we didn't make him pay for it," Indians manager Terry Francona said of Miranda.
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"He's got plus stuff and is really tough on left-handers with his breaking ball that is hard to pick up," Houston manager A.J. Hinch said.
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With a guy like him, you tend to want to sit on a breaking ball, but it's just too much velocity to get off a fastball.
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Mitchell is a pitching prospect who has tantalized the Yankees with an effortless fastball that sits around 95 miles per hour and a sharp breaking ball.
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I think the breaking ball had a little more depth than his first outing so that played a big part, especially against some of the righties.
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Guys whose ball is straight and maybe they can throw a breaking ball directly overhand and a little changeup that can tail, those guys get rocked.
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When he learns a little bit more fastball command he can be even more dominant than he was today, but his breaking ball was pretty incredible today.
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Urshela made it 13-21 by lifting a 23-220 breaking ball over the left-center fence and off an advertisement in the back of Boston's bullpen.
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"I think (Nola) threw plenty of off-speed pitches to keep us off balance and moved the fastball and breaking ball around," Mariners catcher Mike Zunino said.
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Castellanos, the second hitter in the game, gave Detroit a 1-0 lead when he ripped a hanging breaking ball into the stands in left-center field.
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Austin is also demonstrating the ability to throw his breaking ball for a strike early in the count and as a finishing pitch to put hitters away.
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During the 37-minute first inning, Sanchez made it 3-0 by lining a 3-103 breaking ball into the right field seats for his 21st homer.
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Then Astros players would signal their teammates whether the next pitch would be a breaking ball or fastball by banging on a trash can in the dugout.
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DeJong snapped a 3-3 tie when he lifted a 3-1 breaking ball from Chris Flexen (0-3) into the lower rows of the left-field seats.
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He struck out Didi Gregorius on a swinging strike in the dirt, but the breaking ball went by catcher Christian Vazquez for a wild pitch as Holliday scored.
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Aaron Hicks and Gio Urshela kept the inning going with walks and Tauchman snapped a 4-4 deadlock by hitting a 2-1 breaking ball into left field.
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When you have command of a breaking ball — and that big a margin between the changeup and the fastball — it forces the hitter to commit to one pitch.
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Willy Adames then walked and Meadows lifted a low breaking ball over the fence in right for his third home run of the season and a 4-0 lead.
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"Uncharacteristically, he walked a couple, but got up 0-2 on the guy, tried to bounce a breaking ball, but left it right there," said Indians manager Terry Francona.
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But Kershaw got Daniel Murphy to pop up and then he got Wilmer Difo on a nasty breaking ball in the dirt for the win ( read more here). Nooooooooooooooo!
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He dominated the Astros (54-45) primarily with his breaking ball and stole the thunder from Houston third baseman Alex Bregman, a ballyhooed prospect making his major league debut.
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After allowing a leadoff bloop single to Adrian Gonzalez, Oh mowed down the next three hitters, fanning Chris Taylor with a nasty 33-23 breaking ball to end it.
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The Yankees had a chance to do far more damage, but Brandon Workman — with the Fenway crowd on its feet — struck out Torres on a full-count breaking ball.
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David Waldstein: We like what Severino did in the second inning, going to his breaking ball more to strike out the side, wrapped around a harmless walk to Olson.
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"He was really down, like he had a lot of those really low bounced fastballs and then the changeup and breaking ball were elevated," said Reds manager Bryan Price.
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In the fourth, the visitors had runners in scoring position with two out but Weaver forced Bryan Holaday to swing at a 73 mph breaking ball to end the inning.
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Thames hit a first-pitch breaking ball into Arizona's bullpen beyond the right-center field fence and Grisham clobbered a 1-0 fastball into the second deck in right field.
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JT Riddle singled, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Volquez and scored when Dee Gordon pulled a low breaking ball down the right-field line for a double.
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Pedro Alvarez lined a hanging breaking ball into the right field seats leading off the fifth, giving to the Orioles (217-22) a 1-0 lead with his third homer.
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DeJong snapped a 3-3 tie when he lifted a 3-1 belt-high breaking ball from Chris Flexen (33-3) into the lower rows of the left-field seats.
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But McCann foiled the strategy, turning on a 76-mph breaking ball on the inside part of the plate and hitting the three-run homer for a 4-33 lead.
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Bothered by a bad back, he said he was only able to throw his fastball to one side of the plate and was also having trouble with his breaking ball.
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With two outs, Yadier Molina — who was sitting on a breaking ball — got his pitch and drilled it for a two-run double high off the ivy in left-center.
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"He was just living on the edges with all his pitches, not only his fastball, but his breaking ball and his splitter," Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge said of Gausman.
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Archer — who, like Jones, is known for a standout breaking ball (the slider) — had 58 walks after his start on Tuesday, six behind Texas' Martin Perez for the A.L. lead.
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That pitch was up, and he got to it, and I think a week or two ago, there was a breaking ball down and in, and he got to it.
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Along with his harsh breaking ball, Syndergaard's fastball averaged a major-league-best 98 miles per hour among qualified starters — nearly two miles per hour faster than the next best.
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One pitch after Aquino fanned Chase Headley, Holliday delivered the game-winner by sending a breaking ball into the Yankees' bullpen well out of the reach of center fielder Adam Jones.
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I think that was kind of the difference tonight is he kept them off the sinker, got weak contact and groundouts by throwing the cutter and breaking ball and the changeup.
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Judge drove a 1-0 breaking ball over the left-field wall and it was measured by Statcast as the hardest-hit homer since exit velocity began being tracked in 2015.
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Smith helped the Rays even the three-game series at one win apiece when he lifted a first-pitch breaking ball from Luis Cessa (23-21) into the right field seats.
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He showed promise as a pitcher, developing a breaking ball to complement his fastball before giving up the sport after setting his first national age-group record in swimming in 2012.
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After that, four innings, the one run, the homer to Moreland on the breaking ball that got in a spot where he didn't want to get it, the velocity picked up.
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Devers, the second-year third baseman, lashed a 1-2 breaking ball from Gray the opposite way, into the seats beyond the left-field wall for his second grand slam this season.
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Boone, who praised German's use of three outstanding pitches — his breaking ball, changeup and fastball — said it was not a debatable decision to take him out, and German said he understood it.
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Astros players then signaled their teammate in the batter's box whether the next pitch was going to be a breaking ball or fastball by banging on a trash can in the dugout.
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"Whether it was a breaking ball off the plate or down low in the zone, we did chase a little more tonight than we have in other ballgames," Boston manager John Farrell said.
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Kelly homered for the second straight game, his 14th, when he slugged an 0-183 breaking ball from Luis Cessa into the visiting bullpen beyond the left-center field fence in the seventh.
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Boshers rebounded to strike out pinch hitter Tommy Pham and Travis d'Arnaud, but a breaking ball eluded catcher Danny Jansen to allow the winning run to score with Austin Meadows at the plate.
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Already leading 3-1 in the bottom of the fifth, Team Japan third baseman Nobuhiro Matsuda annihilated a hanging breaking ball deep into the left-field bleachers, sending the home crowd into ecstasy.
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He had Javier Baez down to his last strike, but the Cubs second baseman dug a 2-2 breaking ball out of the dirt and ripped it into center for an RBI single.
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After working quickly through the first two innings, Gray struggled with command and Machado tied the game by lifting a 2-0 breaking ball just inside fair territory in left field for a double.
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Philadelphia missed an opportunity to take the lead in the bottom of the fifth when Herrera attempted to score from third after reliever Joba Chamberlain bounced a 1-2 breaking ball to Ryan Howard.
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Aside from the breaking ball that skittered away from Romine, a one-hop grounder bounced over the head of the drawn-in shortstop Didi Gregorius and brought home Xander Bogaerts for the tying run.
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The Phillies wanted him to learn a breaking ball instead, and Giles had a breakthrough with the slider in Class AAA in 2014 when a teammate, Justin De Fratus, taught him the finer points.
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He also drew a walk by staying away from a 3-2 breaking ball with two outs and two on in the seventh inning, setting up C Welington Castillo's go-ahead, three-run double.
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On the fourth pitch of his third confrontation with Bryant, Musgrove rolled a breaking ball over the heart of the plate that Bryant deposited into the Crawford Boxes in left field for his 37th homer.
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With two outs in the first inning, Tucker smacked a hanging breaking ball from Scherzer over the center-field wall, plating Freddie Freeman and Nick Markakis and giving the Braves an early 3-0 lead.
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McCullers ended that game with 24 consecutive curveballs, flummoxing the Yankees&apos final six batters exclusively with the nasty breaking ball that is his best pitch and one of the majors&apos most dangerous curves.
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Pineda had a lead most of his outing, but Severino did not get the lead for good until Hicks drove a 1-1 breaking ball from left-hander Xavier Cedeno into the left field seats.
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However, Dee Gordon, who famously homered in the first game after Fernandez's death, broke up the no-hit bid, slapping a single to center on a 1-1 breaking ball to lead off the ninth.
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He put a jolt into a crowd that sat through a 36-minute rain delay and thunderstorms when he hammered a first-pitch breaking ball from Yoshihisa Hirano (3-5) into the left-field seats.
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Tanaka needed 25 pitches to get through the fourth, largely because of a stubborn Michael Saunders, who fouled off four two-strike pitches before Tanaka hit him with a breaking ball on his ninth pitch.
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In the second inning of last night's 3-2 Rangers win over the Houston Astros, Texas third baseman Adrian Beltre got a hanging breaking ball and, dropping to one knee, thwacked it over the leftfield wall.
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In the ninth, Bradley got the first two batters on 98 mph fastballs and the last on a breaking ball as the Diamondbacks (83-60) broke a two-game losing streak after winning the previous 13.
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I'm not exactly where I want to be — I still don't have the fastball command I'd like — but I'm using the breaking ball and cutter to get ahead a little more now and it's working out.
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Two pitches into the ninth, those missed opportunities were forgotten as Castro drove a 123-212 breaking ball from Jason Motte (23-214) into the left-field seats, touching off a wild celebration at home plate.
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An inning later, the Yankees had first and third, but Zimmermann struck out Aaron Judge swinging on a breaking ball out of the strike zone and retired Gary Sanchez with a grounder on the next pitch.
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He's resting in the upper 90s and lands his breaking ball, this little cutter that he's throwing he struck a couple of our guys out on — that's a real pitch mix of a pretty good pitcher.
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He called his outing "pretty good" while adding there were a few pitches he could have executed better, notably the 1-2 breaking ball that Chris Carter hit for a solo homer in the fourth inning.
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A first-pitch breaking ball for a base hit ends up scoring one, and then after three consecutive base hits, unfortunately I've got to get him, and it's not the greatest matchup for Brad against Victor.
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Dickerson homered for the third straight game with two outs in the third when he lifted a first-pitch breaking ball over the center-field fence and onto the back patch of grass adjacent to the seats.
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Judge emphatically broke McGwire's mark in his next at-bat, hitting a 2-1 breaking ball from Trevor Cahill into the left-center field seats and clearing the Royals bullpen, giving the Yankees a 7-3 lead.
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After the Twins went ahead 1-0 when Rosario hammered Smith's first-pitch breaking ball, the Royals parlayed three walks into their only lead in the third when Alex Gordon dropped a two-run single to right.
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"Coming into this year our goal was for him to increase his overall strike percentage, increase his ability to command the zone with his breaking ball and changeup and improve his fastball command," said manager Bryan Price.
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The Dodgers took a 3-2 lead in the eighth inning when Russell Martin fought off a breaking ball from Steve Cishek (5-4) to dunk a single into left field and score Chris Taylor from second base.
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The Dodgers took a 3-2 lead in the eighth inning when Russell Martin fought off a breaking ball from Steve Cishek (1-4) to dunk a single into left field and score Chris Taylor from second base.
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But in the bottom of the fourth, Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani got ahold of a 72-mph breaking ball from Bassitt and hit it over the fence in right-center, cutting the A's lead to 2-1.
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Kluber then threw his worst pitch of the game — an 21-2 hanging breaking ball to Gonzalez, who belted it into the seats in right field for his 12th home run to give the Astros a 3-0 lead.
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Ortiz redirected a Dellin Betances breaking ball into the seats above the Green Monster with one out in the eighth inning to break a tie and propel the Red Sox to a 4-2 win over the struggling Yankees.
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With Ji-Man Choi at the plate and Jake Bauers on second, Sanchez stabbed his glove at a Luis Severino breaking ball, only to miss it and have it ricochet off his foot into foul territory toward third base.
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Perhaps he felt the need to remind the baseball world what's up in Thursday's Grapefruit League finale, when he sat back on a breaking ball and walloped one so far the cameraman just kind of gave up on tracking it.
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After getting the go-ahead, two-run, bases-loaded single Friday, Torres gave the Yankees a 23-1 lead when he hammered a 1-0 breaking ball from Daniel Norris (0-3) into the first row of the left field bleachers.
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After the Yankees tied it, Soler tucked a 1-1 breaking ball inside the left field foul pole leading off the second and O'Hearn drove a 1-0 fastball over the left-center field fence to lead off the fourth.
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According to CSN PitchTrax, the updating strike zone in the corner of the screen on the Cubs broadcast, Arrieta's next pitch was a big breaking ball that hit the outside of the plate, but it received no reaction from the umpire.
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After getting the go-ahead, two-run, bases-loaded single Friday, Torres gave the Yankees a 2-1 lead when he hammered a 1-0 breaking ball from Daniel Norris (0-3) into the first row of the left field bleachers.
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Kemp picked on a first-pitch fastball with two on for his 24th homer, breaking a drought of nearly a month, and Adams followed an out later by turning on a 22.86-2 breaking ball for his 15th blast of the season.
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Between Polanco's long balls, John Jaso tacked on a two-out RBI single in the seventh, one pitch after Martinez felt he slipped a 2-2 breaking ball by him on the outside corner that plate umpire Dale Scott called a ball.
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For example, the Dodgers had runners at first and second and nobody out in the second inning, but deGrom got Carl Crawford and Wood for the first two outs and then struck out Utley swinging at a breaking ball to end the inning.
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After Chris Owings opened the inning with a single off Dominic Leone (0-43), Peralta golfed a low breaking ball just over the wall in right-center for his second homer of the year, giving the Diamondbacks (7-2) a 3-1 lead.
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When he struck out flailing at a Zack Britton breaking ball that was way out of the strike zone in the eighth, he slammed down his bat, which broke, and Alvarez snapped it in two as he walked back to the dugout.
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Clevinger retired the first two batters of the inning, but when a 2-1 breaking ball tumbled into the fat part of the plate, Robinson Chirinos whacked it into the left-field bleachers for his 11th home run to tie it at 1-1.
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In the eighth, he launched a 3-2 breaking ball from reliever Tyler Thornburg, who turned around Turner with a fastball inside on the pitch before, into the back of the Dodgers' bullpen for another solo blast and a 212-28 tie in the eighth.
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Wheeler's statistics against a lineup that included most of the Washington Nationals' regulars were not exceptional, yet his performance was encouraging because his arm showed vigor, his breaking ball was solid and his fastball averaged around 93 miles per hour, topping out at 97 m.p.h.
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Iannetta bailed him out of a big jam in the sixth, preventing the tying run from scoring when he scrambled to retrieve a breaking ball in the dirt in time to toss it back to Godley, who tagged a sliding Eric Thames to end the inning.
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The biggest blow Sunday was shortstop Paul DeJong's three-run shot on a hanging breaking ball from Reds reliever Kevin Quackenbush as the Cardinals pulled away, after the Reds had scored two runs in the top of the sixth inning to pull to within 3-103.
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Cora countered by bringing in Nunez as a pinch-hitter and Nunez wasted no time, taking a mighty cut at the second pitch he saw — an 84 mile-per-hour breaking ball — and deposited the ball over the Green Monster to put the game out of reach.
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Oh doesn't have the power arsenal you'd suspect from someone with the nickname the "Final Boss" but his low-to-mid-90s fastball plays up due his abrupt arm action and quality command, and he mixes in a highly effective breaking ball (batters have whiffed on more than half their swings).
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"In a given series, when you're facing a team in three games — you have a guy like (Jeremy) Hellickson who mixes it up real well; you have a guy like (Aaron) Nola who pinpoints his fastball and throws his breaking ball; and then you get a guy like Velasquez," Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said.
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The Royals surely think about what it would look like if his bat lost its tendency to stray but kept its pop, if his daily presence provided not just breaking-ball-snuffing and runner-corralling of the highest order but also the sort of offensive threat that makes opposing managers re-map their bullpens.
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That first game's starter was Eduardo Rodriguez, once a phenom who now refuses to throw his breaking ball; the second's was Rick Porcello, who surrendered a characteristic four runs in five and a third innings; the third's was David Price, who after some early-season struggles had been trending upward before he failed to make it through three frames in Texas.
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