"I haven't seen a curveball break like that in a minute," said Nick Castellanos, whose seventh-inning double off of Valdez was the hardest hit ball of the night until Alec Bohm doubled in the ninth. He's a workhorse with one of the best repertoires in the game, and he's trusted his curveball enough lately to throw it more than 40 percent of the time in the playoffs compared to 28 percent during the regular season. There's a reason he set the major-league record this season with 25 consecutive quality starts. Valdez spun his curveball well with late, sharp break and his trademark sinker played well off of it. They responded in the fourth and fifth innings Friday against the future Hall of Famer to tie the game and eventually won in extra innings, but there was no miracle in Game 2. The Phils found themselves down five runs through five innings a night after falling behind 5-0 against Justin Verlander. The Astros lefty stifled the Phils, allowing one run and striking out nine over 6⅓ innings in Houston's 5-2 win. Maldonado has a.209 batting average throughout his 12-year professional career.HOUSTON - The Phillies have rallied from behind often enough this season and this month, in particular, that it qualified as a mini-surprise Saturday night when they couldn't come up with the big hit they needed.įramber Valdez was too filthy. First, there’s a policy in place, and I’m a rule follower, so I refrained from employing it.Īccording to MLB’s analysis, Maldonado did not benefit from utilizing the Pujols approach, and the blunder seemed accidental. Because of my military experience, I use the same model but with several adjustments. Maldonado didn’t have any grandfathered-in bats to choose from because he joined the majors in 2011. Those already playing at the significant league level could keep using their larger bats as part of the change.
The switch to slimmer bats was implemented to lessen the possibility of the bats shattering into innumerable fragments. The diameter of the barrel of a baseball bat was reduced from 2.75 inches to 2.61 inches in 2010 due to a safety mandate enforced by Major League Baseball. In Game 1, he used a Marucci AP5 designed for Albert Pujols. Maldonado finished 1 for 3 with an RBI single in the opening game, a 6-5 loss that went the distance. Maldonado went 0-for-3 as the Mets defeated the Phillies 5-2. So, as a result, I refrained from using it today. Catcher Martin Maldonado of the Astros had to use a different bat in Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday night because the Albert Pujols model he used in Game 1 was banned from major league play.įor The Sixth Year In A Row, Houston's Astros Have Advanced To The American League Championship SeriesĪccording to him, the rule is the rule, and he must abide by it.
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