By metstradamus | June 14, 2021 11:44 pm
With all the questions surrounding David Peterson, this was probably the game out of the next four that the Mets were supposed to drop to Chicago.
Instead, Peterson threw six scoreless innings while only giving up one hit (one g*ddamned hit?) to the Cubs in a 5-2 victory. Peterson threw a very economical 73 pitches (43 for strikes), and it was puncutated by a nasty 3-2 slicer to Willson Contreras to end the 6th in which Contreras had no shot. All credit due to Jeremy Hefner and the coaching staff for fixing whatever issues he had with his release point the previous couple of games. I’m not sure what kind of intensive work the staff did with him, but it can’t be easy to fix something like that at the major league level from one start to the next. I have a feeling that this could be a recurring issue to the point where Peterson might have to remind himself of some things (along with being reminded by Hefner). But for now, the ship has been righted.
There has been a lot of comparisons to Steven Matz here, and I’m not sure it’s accurate for the plain reason that Matz has oodles and oodles of stuff, which is why people surmised that Matz not reaching the stratosphere here was all in his head. (That may have been part of it at some point, but I think there’s a lot of factors as to why Matz didn’t reach his lofty expectations here.) With Peterson, who relies more on location, and has been so hot and cold this season, I think it’s purely mechanical, and we’re going to see a lot of up and down from him. Hopefully Peterson is at the point where the ups will be way up, and the downs won’t bear a stat line of 0.2 IP/4 ER/5 BB.
1 comment:
I was impressed Peterson punched out Bryant with 96 MPH high heat. Nice to see that.
On the other hand, I am tired of seeing folks always use qualifying adjectives with Lucchesi. He is pitching WELL. And I for one am enjoying it. His parole board needs to end the 5 inning curfew.
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