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Kevin Gausman believes the curve is his third pitch

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Really? I guess I'm not up to date on Gausman's pitch development. I didn't know he developed a split change, but I knew the circle change. Vulcan, for some reason I thought that was fastball, but now I remember Star Trek Vulcans hand signs and the fork ball grip. That is what the reference is? Anyway, that's great then. I hope this is a big year for him. Someone needs to teach the others how to pitch.

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I'm glad he did well in the first three innings, but at the end of the day, three runs in four innings is not a great outing. One hanging curve can undo three good innings of work. We see that all the time during the season.

Having had a chance to watch the game last night, I was pretty impressed with Gausman over those first three innings. The walk he allowed in front of McCuthchen's homer included at least two borderline pitches that were called balls but just as easily could have been called strikes. Overall, not a bad outing, and I'm glad he got through 4 IP in less than 60 pitches.

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The curve (really more of a slurve) looks pretty good tonight.

Getting some swings and mixes. Could Gausman have found that third pitch that has kept from being an ace?

This is the reason I got on here, to say what you just said essentially. It made Longoria look silly. I am confident that if we were to look at swinging strikes stats, his slurve tonight generated more than his slider has in any game.....atleast assuming the first four innings were anything similar to the 5th I happened to watch...

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15 OUTS: 7 Strikeouts, 4 Groundouts, 2 Popouts, 2 Flyouts

K.J. GAUSMAN O (vs. D-RAYS, 4/25)

IP:l 5

H:;; 3 ll(2 Doubles, 1 Single)

R:l) 1

BB: 2 *

SO: 7

Pitches: 91 (56 Strikes, 35 Balls)

2016 ERA: 1.80

* Gausman also had 1 Hit Batsman

PITCHES BY INNING

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10 (71 Strikes, 31 Balls)

16 (11 Strikes, 51 Balls)

14 (91 Strikes, 51 Balls)

19 (15 Strikes, 41 Balls)

32 (14 Strikes, 18 Balls)

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Curve looked good overall. Everything looked pretty good.

He relied on the curve a bit too much though in that 5th inning and the Rays weren't chasing. Helped lead to all those extended at-bats that ended up costing Gausman an extra inning in the game.

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I don't know what it is with Gausman. It seems like even when he is pitching well and on his game, he doesn't get much run support or in other words seems to be out pitched by his opponent. Hence his poor W-L record.

They put up a graphic that he had the lowest support as a starter last year. If he pitches like tonight he will win plenty of games eventually.

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I don't know what it is with Gausman. It seems like even when he is pitching well and on his game, he doesn't get much run support or in other words seems to be out pitched by his opponent. Hence his poor W-L record.

Because he figures to be the O's best starter he's probably drawing the opposition's best starters more often. If that's the case then it would probably explain why he gets less run support than the other starters. Archer happened to be at his best tonight.

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