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Detroit chased Royals right-hander Edinson Volquez, who entered the game with a 7-2 record and 2.60 ERA at home.
Cueto was spectacular. He walked none, struck out eight, and nary a Tiger went beyond second base.
In 69 plate appearances heading into tonight, Moustakas had gone 8-for-62 with a double, a home run, ten strikeouts, five walks, a hit-by-pitch, six runs scored, and four driven in, slashing.129/.203/.194 along the way.
As Cueto cruised, his teammates failed to continue battering Boyd.
The Dodgers sit first in the NL West, but they’re not without their troubles: the club’s bullpen has been very bad of late, blowing a big lead in Sunday’s game against the Pirates (reliever Jim Johnson gave up eight runs in two-thirds of an inning).
Throughout the whole game the Royals fans made sure that Cueto felt like he was at home and he fed off of that energy the whole game. For a few years now, Cueto has had a reputation for altering his windup. He removed his cap before the third out landed in Alcides Escobar’s glove. To say his unorthodox pitching has been effective would be an understatement. “The first thing he said, like was, ‘I’m not taking you out, I just want to give you a breather.'” Norris promptly got out of the jam when Eric Hosmer grounded into a double play.
Detroit tops the league in hits with 9.47 per game this season. “He adjusted his game and did a nice job”. “He was commanding his offspeed pitches really well”, Kinsler said. From his position any natural movement associated with his delivery of the ball to the batter commits him to the pitch without interruption or adjustment.
The key phrase in that ruling is “without interruption or alteration”.
Escobar delivered a flawless throw to Salvador Perez, beating McCann to the plate by a step. The Tigers hitters last night were not only off with timing, but extremely uncomfortable. Adam Jones launched his 18th home run in the first inning off Seattle starter Vidal Nuno (0-1) and scored on Davis’ base hit in the fourth. “It just never happened”.
During his wind up Cueto takes a slight pause, and at times even throws in a shimmy.
“We just couldn’t get anything going”.
METS 4, ROCKIES 2 Daniel Murphy drove in two runs with a tiebreaking single in the seventh inning, and host New York rallied for a victory over Colorado.
So according to the rule, Johnny Cueto’s pitching mechanics are technically illegal. We were facing some pretty tough pitchers.
The rule has a gray area.
Royals manager Ned Yost blamed himself for the loss. Sometimes they will do a full leg kick to deceive the base runners AND the hitter, and other times they will do a quick slide step.
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Johnny Cueto is a free agent following the 2015 season.
