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In hindsight, we should have known from the first pitch Tuesday that things wouldn’t go the way in Game 3. I don’t mean ’s first pitch to leadoff man , who watched three sweepers and then hit the fourth for a single. I mean Johan Santana’s first pitch to Joe Mauer. Santana had taken the mound to raucous cheers from the Target Field crowd, and when delivered the baseball to him Santana to reveal he was wearing a López jersey.
He has pitched in the playoffs each of the past four seasons. Notably, he threw five shutout innings to win Game 4 of the 2019 World Series; allowed two runs over five innings to win Game 2 of the 2021 World Series; and helped the Astros bullpen with three scoreless innings in a losing effort in Game 3 of the 2022 World Series. Urquidy does not overpower. He survives on soft contact. He runs a remarkably low strikeout rate and has seen his walk rate jump from 5.6 percent last season to 9.
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