Bundy shines in win over the Blue Jays

[Satyr3206]

Just now, Can_of_corn said:

Rich Hill has a heck of a curve.

At what? 50 mph, lol.

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Satyr3206 said:

At what? 50 mph, lol.

Just saying he was an O and he has a heck of a curve ball.  I'm not sure what we saw from Bundy was better.

[Roll Tide]

11 hours ago, Tony-OH said:

http://www.orioleshangout.com/2017/04/05/bundy-shines-os-win-blue-jays/

 

Wow, great start by Bundy....I was most impressed by the breaking stuff (slider/splitter, and the curve).

Even though he didn't get hit hard in the inning he gave up the run I admit that I don't have confidence in a double play pitch.

[Satyr3206]

Mike Boddicker and Steve Stone had great ones too.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Satyr3206 said:

Mike Boddicker and Steve Stone had great ones too.

They didn't pitch in between Otter and Bundy.

Hill did.

[Tony-OH]

7 hours ago, InsideCoroner said:

Bundy had command of all his secondary pitches tonight. Morales put up the best AB against him. That was no small victory striking him out.

What was obvious tonight was that Bundy's change was completely unrecognizable to Toronto hitters. That pitch had them lunging on their front foot all night.

Funny thing was, they weren't changes. They all broke away from the right-handed batter. I know pitch track kept calling them changes but I think they were more of a cutter/slider that dove down. Those pitches were what the scouts called an 80 cutter when he was in high school.

[Aristotelian]

Smoak's first AB was the only one that the hitter looked comfortable and you could feel a hit coming. DB got ahead of just about every other hitter. They had no idea whether to expect the CB, SL, or FB. 

[InsideCoroner]

32 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Funny thing was, they weren't changes. They all broke away from the right-handed batter. I know pitch track kept calling them changes but I think they were more of a cutter/slider that dove down. Those pitches were what the scouts called an 80 cutter when he was in high school.

Thanks for the clarification. I was sitting on the first-base side so I couldn't see the lateral movement, just the off-speed delivery and how helpless it made the Jays look. His command was simply outstanding.

[24fps]

I only caught the first four innings or so in replay, but that was the Bundy I hoped to see some three or four years ago.  Outstanding.

[MDtransplant757]

He looked well today, which makes me happy...... Let's hope good Ubaldo shows up tomorrow. 

[Tony-OH]

9 minutes ago, InsideCoroner said:

Thanks for the clarification. I was sitting on the first-base side so I couldn't see the lateral movement, just the off-speed delivery and how helpless it made the Jays look. His command was simply outstanding.

I'm trying to get to the bottom of the pitch identification on the displays at Camden Yards. In years past it was a person, but I was told this year it done through statcast. If it is, there is something wrong because on opening day it called three different types of pitches cutters, and none moved away from the right-handed hitter. Last night it was calling his cutter/slider a changeup. He did throw some changeups but they weren't very effective. I'll see what I can dig up.

[Aristotelian]

Fangraphs has a big discrepancy between "PitchFX" and "Pitch Type" for Bundy 2017. PitchFX appears to see Bundy's Slider/Cutter as a changeup, and only gives him 3 pitches (FB, CH, CB), with 37% CH! "Pitch Type" gives him a Cutter (29%) with CH as the 4th pitch (7%0.

I noticed Gausman has some discrepancies this year too. Is PitchFX broken?

[TouchemAll]

Bundy's stuff last night was just filthy

[Cumberbundy]

9 hours ago, InsideCoroner said:

Bundy had command of all his secondary pitches tonight. Morales put up the best AB against him. That was no small victory striking him out.

What was obvious tonight was that Bundy's change was completely unrecognizable to Toronto hitters. That pitch had them lunging on their front foot all night.

To get a swing and miss, on 3-2, from a lefty, on a fastball, after 85 pitches, in start 1, of his first April start in the bigs, was a special thing to see. 

 

 

[Cumberbundy]

1 hour ago, Tony-OH said:

Funny thing was, they weren't changes. They all broke away from the right-handed batter. I know pitch track kept calling them changes but I think they were more of a cutter/slider that dove down. Those pitches were what the scouts called an 80 cutter when he was in high school.

He threw one that, due to the camera angle, appeared to move like a screwball back into Tulo as it fell off the table with Tulo missing badly in the 7th. He left several spinning and a couple that simply moved laterally, I wonder if he is trying to do two different things or if it just works out that way. One thing I noticed was he put more effort into a few of those pitches than he does his others, he doesn't typically fall off but he threw a few that looked like they'd cause an arm to fall off...Harry Dunns pets heads fell off, I don't think we Os fans would rebound as well as he did if our pitchers arms start falling off.