Well, after that nice game where he got shelled in the first and then buckled down, Boof came out and did some garden-variety sucking tonight. How did he approach each batter? Here’s a plot, fresh and hot out the pitchf/x kitchen. Different at bats are color-coded, and the pitch result is marked by the symbol. Click to enlarge:
What immediately jumps out at me is:
- Boof didn’t want anything to do with David Ortiz. And sure enough, he threw him one hittable pitch, and Ortiz hit it.
- In three at bats, Mike Lowell didn’t see a single pitch on the inner two-thirds of the plate! Pretty cool.
