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Mixed Review for Nomo
2004-08-17 12:03
Dodger Thoughts reader Kevin Burns traveled to Sacramento and saw Hideo Nomo pitch Monday. He offers this report: Pitched 3 innings. All from the stretch. Never went to the windup. First inning he looked pretty bad. The hits were all pretty much hit hard. He was fooling nobody. By the third inning, he looked pretty good. He was mixing his pitches pretty good and keeping the batters pretty off balance. A lot of weak swings in the third. The second inning was pretty much in the middle. He hit 88-89 on the stadium radar gun four times. Twice in the first and his very last two pitches in the third. The two in the third had some giddy-up and pop. I would say that the rest of his pitches were evenly distributed between the 84 MPH range and 72 MPH range. Not sure really if those 72 MPH pitches were change-ups or breaking balls or what. He bounced a lot of the splitters well in front of the plate, leaving the catcher writhing in pain on at least two occasions. He came off the mound and fielded a bunt agilely. Overall, decent performance. Looked pretty bad and very hittable in the first (used to seeing that) and looking pretty good come the third. I wish I knew a little more about the pitch selection to make an assumption about the fluctuating velocity. If you want to compare this to an earlier Nomo start this season, click here.
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