Today (4/9) the Washington Nationals visit the San Francisco Giants. This is the first meeting between the two sides this season. They will start a three-game series at Oracle Arena in San Francisco. In the first game, the Giants introduced 2023 National League Young Award winner Blake Snell, who made his first appearance of the season, while the Nationals introduced veteran Trevor Williams.
Snell, who was signed before the start of the season and missed the entire spring training, was obviously still adjusting. He only used 72 pitches to complete 3 innings of pitching, allowed 3 hits and 3 runs, and also sent 2 walks and 5 strikeouts. Snell, who has always been slow to start the season, did not have ideal ball control in this game, with only about 54% strike rate, but the fastest ball speed has reached 97.1 miles, and he also has a 42% miss rate. Overall, it was a very Snell-style start.
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— MLB (@MLB) April 9, 2024
Another focus of this game is that Taiwanese player Kai-Wei Deng is making his second appearance in the major leagues. After Snell retired after pitching 3 innings, the Giants sent out Erik Miller and Landen Roupp one after another, but they were unable to suppress the Nationals’ offense. At the same time, they were also limited by the suppression of the opponent’s pitching staff. After the first five innings, the Giants were Trailing 6-0 at home, in the first half of the sixth inning, the Giants replaced their third relief pitcher, Deng Kaiwei.
After getting on the board in the first half of the sixth inning, Deng Kaiwei only used 24 pitches in the first two and a half innings, allowing his opponent to hit six balls and six bottoms, creating four ground balls and two weak fly balls. In the first half of the eighth inning, Deng Kaiwei continued to throw, Facing the leadoff batter Keibert Ruiz gave out his first strikeout of the game and walked the next Ildemaro Vargas, Trey Lipscomb hit a hit in the direction of the center field. Center fielder Lee Jung-hoo quickly stepped forward to help. After receiving the ball, he passed it to third base and caught the runner who wanted to take the opportunity to go to third base. He did Deng Kaiwei a big favor. After two outs, Luis García Jr., who was next at bat, hit a fly ball to the right field and successfully completed the three innings. Pitching duties.
In the first half of the ninth inning, Deng Kaiwei continued to stand on the mound. Facing the Nationals in the second round, he was not as comfortable as he was in the previous three innings. Facing Jacob Young, who was the first to bat, he threw a touch ball, and then was hit by Jesse Winker one after another. He hit a hit with Lane Thomas and gave up the first run of the game. Although he struck out Joey Gallo in time, he also walked Joey Meneses in the next baseball, creating a situation with one out and the bases loaded. At this time, the head coach Stepping onto the pitcher’s mound, Deng Kaiwei’s pitching task for today has come to an end.
Taylor Rogers, who replaced Kaiwei Deng in pitching, gave a walk to squeeze back a runner on base, but the damage did not continue to expand. In total, Kaiwei Deng pitched 61 pitches in 3 innings today, allowing 3 hits and 2 runs, as well as 2 walks and 2 strikeouts. After entering the pitching task of the fourth inning, Kaiwei Deng’s ball control was obviously a bit weak. The ball speed and power have also declined, but this game produced a total of 4 ground balls and 2 infield fly balls. Overall, the situation is quite good.
Compared with the previous time on the board, the most obvious change is that Deng Kaiwei used a considerable number of curveballs. Compared with only 3 curveballs (4.4%) the previous time he was on the board, he used as many as 25 curveballs (41%) in this game. Jam balls (33%) and fast balls (16%) have become his second ball types, and they are used in various situations such as grabbing a good ball on the first ball or falling behind in the count. This may be an adjustment made after the coaching staff or catchers become more familiar with him, and it did have good results when facing the first round of hits.
In the end, the Giants lost the game 8-1 at home. Trevor Williams, who pitched 5 innings and only allowed 1 run, took the winning pitch, while Snell, who pitched only 3 innings, took the loss.
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