Kirby vs. the White Sox loose Cannon G.T. 8/6/25

[seth8734]

Ok Kirby needs some shut down innings here!!!!

[Donn Beach]

George and the walks this year is odd.

I chalk it up to the time away and knocking rust off. Hopefully he's back to his normal self to close this year and then next year

I heard the australian dude talking about Kirby's adjustment this year.
What happens is when he's behind in the count or gets into trouble he is so accurate that his pitches end up in the center/middle of the plate.
So he is purposely trying to hit the corners/edges and ends up giving up more walks vs. hits with the ball over the sweet spot.
Sounds reasonable I guess. Give up the walk instead of the run(s).

Sounds very reasonable, that's development. He might give up more walks but hitters aren't going to be able to sit on hittable pitches if they get ahead in the count. Hit a few of them while you're at it

[Seattle or Bust]

The weird thing is that both Kirby and Gilbert have abandoned some pitches this year.

Kirby threw a splitter pretty consistently last year... has reduced drastically. He's thrown one tonight from my count and missed badly.

Conversely, Logan has jumped his splitter % by a wide margin and has greatly reduced the amount of curves thrown.

I wonder what gives considering how successful they both were last year.

[D-train]

The weird thing is that both Kirby and Gilbert have abandoned some pitches this year.

Kirby threw a splitter pretty consistently last year... has reduced drastically. He's thrown one tonight from my count and missed badly.

Conversely, Logan has jumped his splitter % by a wide margin and has greatly reduced the amount of curves thrown.

I wonder what gives considering how successful they both were last year.

I said nothing short of a sweep is a fail and you ordered up a beat down. Win Win so far.

[Seattle or Bust]

The weird thing is that both Kirby and Gilbert have abandoned some pitches this year.

Kirby threw a splitter pretty consistently last year... has reduced drastically. He's thrown one tonight from my count and missed badly.

Conversely, Logan has jumped his splitter % by a wide margin and has greatly reduced the amount of curves thrown.

I wonder what gives considering how successful they both were last year.

I said nothing short of a sweep is a fail and you ordered up a beat down. Win Win so far.

Yessir. Fun, aint it?

[seattlefan-daBronx]

This umpire sucks.

[Juliooooo]

This ump wants to go home. He’s giving this pitcher every pitch close to the strike zone. Not 1 of those pitches to Julio was a strike. He has given him 1-2 pitches almost every AB

[seth8734]

Wholly fuck ump seriously wow. Wtf sucks they dont get penalized for being trully blind

[HawkandMariner88]

Robot Umps can't get here soon enough

[seth8734]

This ump wants to go home. He’s giving this pitcher every pitch close to the strike zone. Not 1 of those pitches to Julio was a strike. He has given him 1-2 pitches almost every AB

Yea wtf is this. Fucking Manfred really has it out for us!!!