Early on I saw 3-4 balls 6" out of the strike zone called strikes on Dodger hitters. In the baseball world that is a country mile!
Several ways, getting squeezed by the umpire, facing the team that led the majors in home runs, different ball conspiracy and he's just tired.
Just seems like he is becoming more and more like Greg Maddux or Roger Clemens in that he is completely dominant in reg season and just decent in post season. Unlike a Verlander
Everybody pretty much has been. Cry young winners are getting destroyed this post s Aston. The guy Houston started was a cy young winner. Kluber got destroyed too. I'm not saying Clayton didn't have issues just that a lot of good pitchers are. Hell Kennedy hadn't blown a save in the post season ever and has been hit hard too.
That's the point though, he isnt everybody. Nobody dominates like him in reg season. And come post season he's just decent. Got 4.5 ERA this post season. Verlander 3.05 and Keuchel 3.24 significantly better, though not nearly as good reg season.
Five games into this World Series they've broken the record for home runs hit. The old re rod was hit at the height of the steroids era. It's all of baseball it's going to affect everybody. He was great game one and got hit last night I have no answer other than it's happening to everybody.
Not Verlander. Not Tanaka. And he had a lead. Again, his post season career is full of disappointing starts while he's the best regular season pitcher in the last 10 years.
So what's the point? Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Greg Maddux etc etc etc lots of great pitchers were worse in the post season than regular season. He's had one inning in a handful of starts where he gave up runs. That mean he's not good? I'll still take him every day if we need one game.
