By metstradamus | July 25, 2020 8:29 pm
This was supposed to be a lighthearted post about Adam Duvall hitting a home run off of the cutout of Jeff McNeil’s dog. “Why Does Adam Duvall Hate Dogs?” was supposed to be the title. It was going to lead into Steven Matz’s good outing (six innings, struck out the side in his last inning, perhaps a slight acknowledgement of how his motion slows down when he throws off speed pitches, but overall a good outing.) Then I was ready to discuss Jeurys Familia’s clean inning, Dellin Betances having great stuff but not being able to throw first pitch strikes, and Justin Wilson’s sexy reverse splits getting him out of trouble in the 8th after he struck out Ronald Acuna to end the inning (a batter he had to face because of the three batter rule, a rule that should not affect Wilson adversely with those sexy reverse splits.)
But then with a 2-1 lead in the 9th, Edwin Diaz happened. But more importantly, whoever called a fastball to Marcell Ozuna happened. Look, Diaz’s stuff was excellent. Remember last year when Diaz’s slider was trash and his only chance to survive the season was to throw his fastball? Well it’s different this year. Diaz’s slider was great yesterday, and just as great today. The slider he threw to strike out Ozzie Albies to lead off the 9th was the smoothest and silkiest cheesecake you’ve ever eaten. Then he got Freddie Freeman to pop up for the second out.
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