Source: thesportsdaily.com --- Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Whoever said “better the devil you know” has never watched a Baseball game. Because once you know a devil, you want him gone. Tyler Pill started Tuesday’s game as the devil we didn’t know. We knew Rafael Montero. He needed to go. We didn’t really know Tyler, and before the weekend, neither did his manager . Sometimes devils you don’t know turn out not to be devils. So it was good to get a look at Pill. NEW YORK, NY – MAY 30: Tyler Pill #56 of the New York Mets celebrates the last out in the fifth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers on May 30, 2017 at Citi Field in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Pill got the job done as best he could. He went five and a third giving up six hits, three walks, and one run. While nobody is ever going to mistake him as a Marvel Comics character (though “Medicine Man” would have worked perfectly), there’s nothing wrong with a back of the rotation guy who can paint the corners. He didn’t paint all of them at 62 strikes out of 103 pitches, but there is promise. After a leadoff triple in the fifth, Pill got Hernan Perez to foul out. Then with the count at 3-2 on Travis Shaw, Ron Darling said that Pill should go inside after throwing junk outside in the entire at-bat. When a young pitcher does what Ron Darling says, it’s quite impressive. Pill threw inside and got Shaw looking. A Domingo Santana ground out would end the inning. After running ...
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