Mariners’ Hernandez burns former team, spoils stellar outing from Blue Jays’ Kikuchi

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Published 22.07.2023

Mariners’ Hernandez burns former team, spoils stellar outing from Blue Jays’ Kikuchi

SEATTLE — Pitching in Seattle for the primary time since he left the Mariners without cost company two winters in the past, pitching earlier than the tens of hundreds of Western Canadians that wage an annual hostile takeover of T-Mobile Park, pitching within the place the place he was a rattling All-Star, Yusei Kikuchi was feeling it:

That was hanging out the facet with two runners on within the second. Striking out a top-five dwelling run hitter since 2019 with a runner in scoring place within the third? Still feeling it:

Kick save and a magnificence to strand a leadoff single within the fourth? Feeling. It.

Sorry, you wish to take this man out of the rotation? You need Kikuchi to cease strolling dudes and giving up screamers and permitting so many baserunners? You idiot. He has to let the primary batter attain in virtually each inning he pitches. He can’t do stuff like this with out runners on. It doesn’t get good till he’s in hassle.

Case in level — Friday, Kikuchi both walked or allowed a single to the leadoff hitter in every of his first 4 frames. He let a runner attain in 5 of the six innings he pitched in. And each time he opened that door, he slammed it within the ensuing Mariners faces.

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“I love that. If you look at last year, how the results have been compared to this year, it’s just a totally different story,” says Blue Jays supervisor John Schneider. “Just locking it in and going to the next pitch. It’s a credit to him. He’s been really good. He’s been really good for the whole year. And he kicked it into gear tonight.”

Landing his fastball, curveball and slider for strikes, incomes a whiff on over a 3rd of Seattle’s swings, and pitching with a swagger that might have been ludicrous to recommend he even possessed solely 12 months in the past, Kikuchi labored 5.1 scoreless innings, hanging out eight and strolling off the mound to a standing ovation in a recreation the Blue Jays in the end misplaced, 3-2. Were you not entertained?

“I always go in with the mindset: even if I let one guy on, don’t let the next guy on. Just focus on the next batter,” Kikuchi stated by means of interpreter Yusuke Oshima. “I don’t look too far ahead. I just continue to attack the hitters, go one pitch at a time, and really execute on the pitches that I throw.”

Offence arrived within the fifth as Danny Jansen — who else? — yanked a first-pitch Bryce Miller fastball over the wall in left. And the seventh as Daulton Varsho — uh, who else? — legged out an infield single, stole second, took third on a groundball to the left facet and scored on a wild pitch.

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Nervous moments developed within the seventh, because the Mariners, dealing with a two-run deficit, put a few runners in scoring place with none out in opposition to Trevor Richards. Enter previous Mariners pal Erik Swanson, who allowed a type of runners to attain on a bloop single however erased the opposite with a weak groundball to first as Brandon Belt gunned out AJ Pollock on the plate. Swanson loaded the bases two batters later however stranded all three by blowing away Eugenio Suarez with a 94 m.p.h. fastball on the peak of the zone.

A letdown for all these Canadian invaders got here within the eighth, as Alejandro Kirk — pinch-hitting in opposition to a left-hander for Varsho — grounded right into a double play with one out and the bases loaded within the high half, earlier than the Mariners tied the sport with a bloop single and line-drive double off Yimi Garcia within the backside.

“You trust in [Kirk] to get a good pitch and get it in the air. It didn’t work out that way,” Schneider stated. “I know it’s a risk when Kirky puts the ball on the ground for a double play. But he’s a dude for us and he’s going to be going forward. And I just liked that spot.”

And heartbreak within the ninth, when Blue Jays nearer Jordan Romano put two runners on earlier than surrendering a walk-off rocket to the best discipline wall off the bat of — yeah, who else? — Teoscar Hernandez.

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All that late-game drama produced compelling scenes at a completely raucous T-Mobile, with relievers letting out roars on the finish of their innings, followers of every facet erupting round them and Hernandez thumping his chest as he ended it. No matter which forex you used to purchase your ticket, you bought your cash’s price.

“You’ve got your best guys in there and you feel good about all those guys. They’ve performed so well the entire season. You have all the faith and trust in the world in those guys,” Schneider stated of his bullpen. “Teo hit a pitch that was up in the zone a little bit. You like that match up. Jordy versus anyone, really. You walk Julio to set up a double play. It just didn’t work out tonight.”

Ultimately, the perfect juice on this one for the numerous, many Blue Jays followers packing out an enemy ballpark was watching Kikuchi do his factor. Posing, strutting, leg-kicking. And though there was some noise in regards to the left-hander probably reprising his late-season aid function of a 12 months in the past, which noticed him strike out 40 per cent of the batters he confronted from Toronto’s bullpen and pitch his means right into a leverage spot by season’s finish, there’s out of the blue motive to imagine Kikuchi can be staying proper the place he’s within the membership’s rotation.

Because if it’s a hard-throwing, homer-prone, left-handed reliever that includes the flexibility to throw a number of innings, a decent slider and a free grip on the place, precisely, their pitches are going, properly, the Blue Jays simply acquired him in Genesis Cabrera.

And good factor they did. With lone bullpen lefty Tim Mayza (44 appearances), plus de facto second lefties Swanson (46 appearances) and Richards (40.1 innings), having logged excessive workloads thus far within the season, the Blue Jays have been in search of a means so as to add one other aid possibility that may match up in opposition to powerful left-handed hitters in center innings. The hope is Cabrera will fill that function, and permit Schneider to protect Mayza, Swanson, and Richards for higher-leverage work later in video games.

“We like the arm, the velo, the strikeout ability,” Schneider stated. “We’re going to be facing lineups that are stacked with a lot of lefties coming up.”

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Like the Dodgers, who commonly run batting orders with 5 left-handed hitters. Or the Angels, who’re constructed round Shohei Ohtani, Mickey Moniak, Mike Moustakas and Matt Thaiss within the coronary heart of their lineup. Or the Orioles and Red Sox, who the Blue Jays will face in a pair of great sequence come the start of August.

The concept is to let Cabrera enter to face Gunnar Henderson and Adley Rutschman or Masataka Yoshida and Rafael Devers within the fifth or sixth inning behind a Blue Jays starter — say, when somebody like Kikuchi is starting their third journey by means of the order — permitting Schneider to carry onto Mayza, Richards, and Swanson as choices to deploy in powerful spots come the seventh or eighth.

“In a perfect world, it’s a little bit lower leverage to start,” Schneider stated. “But it’s just another option that can really be tough on lefties.”

Of course, in Cabrera, the Blue Jays are buying an electrical arm with loads of promise and lots to work on. In 2020 and ’21, Cabrera was sitting 97-98 along with his fastball whereas pitching to a 3.41 ERA throughout 90 appearances in a set-up function with the Cardinals. But over the 2 seasons since he’s misplaced a pair ticks off his heater and struggled to maintain fly balls within the yard, permitting 1.64 HR/9.

As Cabrera’s ERA elevated — 4.81 over 71 appearances for the reason that starting of 2021 — the Cardinals’ belief in him diminished, and he completed his St. Louis tenure dealing with low leverage. When the membership opted to designate him for project final week quite than optioning him to the minors, it stated one thing refined. When Cardinals supervisor Oliver Marmol supplied that “I thought it was the right time for him to have a change of scenery,” it stated one thing overt.

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But the Blue Jays have a set of methods they use to assist pitchers dealing with points similar to Cabrera’s get again within the zone and maintain balls within the yard. Schneider stated the membership already has some tweaks in thoughts that it plans to share with Cabrera as soon as he joins the Blue Jays within the coming days — seemingly this weekend in Seattle if he can get his work visa sorted, and no later than subsequent week in Los Angeles.

For his half, Cabrera’s already made some changes this 12 months, barely reducing his arm slot and releasing pitches nearer to first base, which has juiced the horizontal motion of his fastball. He’s additionally began leaning on a 90-mph slider as his main off-speed weapon. And in a number of appearances this season, he threw extra sliders than fastballs.

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That hitters have whiffed on Cabrera’s bullet slider 46.4 per cent of the time they’ve swung at it this season speaks to its utility. When he’s tunnelling it successfully off his fastball, Cabrera forces hitters to make a troublesome determination between the 2 choices which each are available in tougher than they’re accustomed to seeing from a left-hander. It’s strikingly just like how Kikuchi pitched in aid final season.

And, in a humorous flip of destiny, Cabrera’s addition could have simply purchased Kikuchi extra time within the rotation. More alternatives for performances like Friday’s when all the pieces’s working. More leg kicks, extra poses, extra strikeout struts. And in that case, everybody wins.

“He’s been really good. If you look at our season overall — without him, where would we be?” Schneider stated of Kikuchi. “It’s just a credit to him, the work that he’s done up to this point, and the conviction in which he’s throwing his pitches. When he’s got at least three of them working like he did tonight, he’s as good as anybody.”