Series 45: Jays @ Braves

[Heroic Shrimp]

If anybody's keen to watch Game 2 of the 1992 Toronto-Atlanta World Series, it's on Sportsnet right now.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Edwin 3-for-3 with 2 walks in his return tonight.  That'll do.

 

[L K]

Estrada goes 8 shutout innings and the Jays win 5-0 to finish up the road trip.

 

[Beowulf]

Yet another productive night from both Goins and Pennington who each went 2 for 4; obviously Pennington with the biggest hit of the game.

 

[herman]

Estrada goes 8 shutout innings and the Jays win 5-0 to finish up the road trip.

Seems to be more the norm this year for Estrada...

http://www.bluejaysplus.com/how-much-should-we-believe-in-marco-estrada/
I enjoyed this article examining Estrada's mechanics and strategy.

Estrada has completely changed the way he attacks hitters. Whereas before he was following the standard philosophy of attempting to work down, Estrada is now pitching more towards the top of the zone.

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But not just anybody can pitch up in the zone and get away with it. There?s a very real reason that Marco Estrada and Chris Young can throw the ball up there and survive. Both of those pitchers get abnormally high amounts of spin on the baseball. In fact, Marco Estrada is one of the leaders in baseball in average spin rate on his fastball and second, to Young, in ?rise.?

Now, obviously a human can?t make a fastball actually rise, but Estrada?s falls at a rate much slower than everybody else?s, to the point that his fastball drops 12.3 inches less than would be expected by gravity. This leads to a lot of batters getting under the ball and hitting those weak flyballs we?ve seen from Estrada all season.