Tyler Glasnow got here out throwing 98.5 mph fastballs, 92 mph sliders, and 87 mph curveballs for six innings Thursday.
Ryan Yarbrough didn’t.
The veteran left-hander picked up a uncommon 3-inning save in a 7-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday. He threw nothing more durable than 88 mph, and practically threw as many curveballs as fastballs. Despite – or perhaps due to – his finesse repertoire, Yarbrough excelled. The Cardinals mustered just one baserunner towards Yarbrough within the closing three innings.
It was a potential preview of how the Dodgers would possibly deploy their most verstaile reduction pitcher this season.
“You’ve gotten two actually contrasting pitchers and kinds,” Roberts mentioned. “4 lefties within the (Cardinals) lineup. I felt it was good to present Yarbs some leash.”
It’s not all the time the case {that a} supervisor will have the ability to line up his relievers in a wonderfully optimum method, however that gave the impression to be the case within the Dodgers’ residence opener. Certain, the workforce hadn’t performed in eight days since shedding to the Padres in Seoul, South Korea. However by utilizing Yarbrough and no different relievers Thursday, Roberts was planning forward.
After the three video games towards the Cardinals, the Dodgers will host the San Francisco Giants for 3 straight video games Monday by Wednesday. Their subsequent off-day isn’t till subsequent Thursday. The Dodgers will have the ability to climate that stretch with each different reliever out there and recent.
Yarbrough thinks he’ll have the ability to bounce again rapidly, too. He solely wanted 44 pitches to throw three innings.
“I feel this was ideally how issues went final 12 months for me, to type of give guys a time without work, particularly after we get that type of lead,” he mentioned. “Being left-handed I feel they nonetheless need me to be out there for brief stints if it involves that. We’ll see. I threw as much as 5 (innings) earlier than we left (for Seoul). Then obtained 2 a pair days in the past. I felt effective, 3, particularly, even going extra. We’ll see what the sport plan is.”
Pitchers are credited with a save in the event that they shut out a victory by pitching three or extra innings, whatever the rating. It’s the third time Yarbrough has been credited with a save underneath these circumstances since becoming a member of the Dodgers forward of final 12 months’s commerce deadline.
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