Plus Freddy Peralta's worry-free tattoo and this week's historical detour from the Immaculate Grid.
Welcome to Sliders, a weekly in-season column that focuses on both the timely and timeless elements of baseball. The fifth inning was a struggle. A single, then a double play. A walk, a stolen base, another walk. The survived it, and got another two outs in the sixth. For his wobbly effort that night at Tropicana Field, Cleavinger got a win. Advertisement The guy who pitched most of the game, starter , got an assignment to the Durham Bulls.
The inconsistency, he said, cannot be good for keeping pitchers healthy. Lastly, the fact that not one game mound in all 30 ballparks is the same. They all have different dirt/different clay/different slopes/different mound heights. Some are hard. Some are soft. It has to have some type of impact on your throw when all the mounds are different right? — Alex Wood “I’ve been talking about it for years.
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