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Chris Tillman, May 7 Start

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I was at the game today and Tillman was awesome. He worked at a nice pace, threw strikes and pretty much dominated the Columbus lineup. He gave up 7 hits, but honestly they were mostly bloops and one broken bat single. I don't remember one hard hit ball the entire day. His fastball was sitting mostly 92-93 but he touched 94 a number of times. I think he could have easily pitched the 7th, but the Tides had a very long bottom of the 6th batting and that may have factored into the decision to not send him out for the 7th as well. He also seemed very poised and gave a nice fist pump when he struck out the last batter in the 6th. Can't wait to see this guy at OPACY.

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The one "development" that I love in Tillman's season is this early season success. Everyone salivated over how he finished each of the last two seasons. I'm not saying he was bad earlier in either of the previous two seasons, just that he got stronger as he went. It seems like he's getting stronger, earlier, this season. In other words, it seems like he's figuring things out, rather than having to refine his craft over the season...his floor's higher.

I'm not sure if this is just my observation or if it's real. I hope it's the latter.

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