Peavy’s two hitter
April 5th, 2008 | Published in Jake Peavy, San Diego Padres, baseball, pitchf/x | 8 Comments
9 innings, 2 hits, 1 walk, 1 run, 116 pitches, 80 strikes.
… Nice. How did ya do it, Jake?
Fastball: 65 (93.3)
Slider: 31 (85.4)
Change: 9 (84.7)
Splitter: 5 (84.6)
Cutter: 4 (86.9)
Curve: 2 (77.7)
That’s number of pitches with mph in parenthesis, by PITCHf/x.
How about percentage of each pitch by batters handedness?
Lefties … righties
Fastball: 61% … 48%
Slider: … 24% … 30%
Splitter: 6% …… 2%
Change: 4% …… 13%
Cutter: 3% …….. 4%
Curve: 1% ……… 2%
By the way, 70 of his pitches were to lefties and 46 to righties. So he went with the fastball primarily with left handers, and with righties he mixed in the change and slider more often. According to Josh Kalk’s player card, last year Peavy threw 7% more sliders to righties and ~3% more changes to lefties.
Alrighty, how about his swinging strikes? How did he get ‘em?
Only had 15, believe it or not. 7 fastballs, 4 sliders, 3 change ups, 1 splitter. Strikes looking? 12 fastballs, 7 sliders, 1 change, and 1 splitter.
Okay, did his fastball velocity go up or down as the game went on?
As you can see there, it went down a bit overall. But interestingly he was able to bust out a couple of his fastest pitches in the 9th ….
April 5th, 2008 at 10:53 pm (#)
You’ve got this pitchf/x stuff down.
April 5th, 2008 at 11:54 pm (#)
Thanks, Mel.
Maybe in 5 years I’ll be able to produce something half as interesting as Mike Fast or one of those guys : )
April 6th, 2008 at 1:12 pm (#)
Yeah I was at that game and Peavy was on. Packed house, beautiful day (like always in San Diego) and a great win.
Funny story…after the game I was walking back to my car and was walking next to 2 Japanese guys for at least a couple minutes. Then all of a sudden a couple Japanese Dodger fans run up to us and start waving stuff in the guys face. Turns out it was Hiroki Kuroda. I should have tripped him or something….haha.
April 6th, 2008 at 4:03 pm (#)
Rick, should have tried to bribe Kuroda-san with some fish tacos to switch allegiance.
Nice work, Myron. Peavy was pretty efficient despite striking out 8. Nice of Bud to let him finish the game.
April 7th, 2008 at 12:06 am (#)
I didn’t even know Kuroda would be trip-worthy. Then again, a nice outing or two allows people to start dreaming …
April 7th, 2008 at 8:48 am (#)
MB any Dodger is trip worthy….
April 7th, 2008 at 1:26 pm (#)
Except Nomar : )
April 11th, 2008 at 9:43 am (#)
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