phew

From the MLB.com site, seems that Kopech's velocity is in the 93-95 range this inning.

Two-seamers?

They're reading as four seamers, but 94.2 as the highest velocity seems a bit off.

Edited September 6, 20187 yr by caulfield12

i really hate victor martinez 

1 minute ago, reiks12 said:

i really hate victor martinez 

Hi I'm Veektor Martinez.

21 minutes ago, reiks12 said:

They knew this would happen but started him anyway.

I hope these 20 innings he will pitch in september will be worth losing that extra year.

Better than ending his season this past weekend. He will get more innings either way.

This Cordell guy does not have any plate discipline.

Gonna have to throw harder than 93-94

That first pitch after the HR was one of the nastiest breaking balls I've ever seen.

Mahtook is like Davidson vs. KC, must have nearly all of his homers this year against the White Sox.

93.3 velocity on the homer, fwiw.

 

Now the homer on a 78 MPH slider...I guess this one will get excused by coming back after a rain delay.  ERA up to 3.21, should be 6 ER in 14 IP now.

Edited September 6, 20187 yr by caulfield12

Yuck, his stuff sucks tonight. 

MLB has adjusted to Kopech. Time to see how well he adjusts back

 

EDIT Although I guess its easier to adjust when his velo is down 3 mph or so

Edited September 6, 20187 yr by gusguyman

BUST

Good god...wake up call for Kopech that you can't try to coast 

Tommy John watch!

"A Learning Experience"

 

Just now, Tony said:

He doesn't have anything CLOSE to his best stuff tonight, his velo is way down. 

But it's been down since his debut. Definitely seems like a Cooper thing

Speaking of, has the great Cooper gone to the mound this inning?

1 minute ago, fathom said:

Good god...wake up call for Kopech that you can't try to coast 

Why do you think he’s trying to coast?

He seemingly got mad and finally threw one at 96.1 MPH, which didn't have a good result, either.

A little bit of a Chris Sale streak in him, there.

Was he really thinking he could just dial it all the way down and be successful like Sale and Rodon have been in the past at lower velocities?

 

Just now, fathom said:

Speaking of, has the great Cooper gone to the mound this inning?

He’s on the mound right now.

Ah, finally Cooper wakes up from his 13 year nap

This night went to crap,have a good night fellas 

So far everything seems consistent with the Tigers zoning in on his fastball only and Kopech not having the usual power to make guys miss it. They've hit his fastball in predictable fastball situations, they've looked terrible when he locates his offspeed, and they've been able to kill his hanging offspeeds because they're being so aggressive.

1 minute ago, Heads22 said:

 

Exactly. Dead arm seems the most likely culprit.