DETROIT – How are hitters supposed to be able to figure out Tarik Skubal when his pitches sometimes even fool the Hawk-Eye technology that Statcast uses to measure spin and identify pitches?
The initial reading on Max Clark's fifth-inning, RBI triple was 99-mph sinker. It was quickly corrected to a four-seamer.
"His four-seamer was cutting like crazy," Clark said.
That could be the reason for the initial read of a sinker. It had that type of action.
"His sinker was really working," Clark said. "We'd talked before the game about how he'd gotten away from it once he went to LA. I don't know if they didn't like it as much or they were tinkering with it. But I got a couple of them."
#sinker #tarik
The initial reading on Max Clark's fifth-inning, RBI triple was 99-mph sinker. It was quickly corrected to a four-seamer.
"His four-seamer was cutting like crazy," Clark said.
That could be the reason for the initial read of a sinker. It had that type of action.
"His sinker was really working," Clark said. "We'd talked before the game about how he'd gotten away from it once he went to LA. I don't know if they didn't like it as much or they were tinkering with it. But I got a couple of them."
#sinker #tarik
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