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If you just looked at the ball and strike totals on this graph, you'd probably think that I had accidentally posted a graph for Phil Hughes in the wrong article. But low and behold, with reports of Phil imparting some words of wisdom to the young hurler, Trevor May came out and put together probably his best outing of his short major league career.
With the exception of a four hitter stretch in the 4th, May was very impressive. He gave up 5 hits, walked zero, and struck out 10 in 6 innings of work. 4 of those hits came consecutively in the aforementioned 4th inning, with the 5th being a solo home run surrendered to Adrian Nieto. May threw an astonishing 75% of his pitches for strikes today. This included 18 called strikes. He nearly threw as many called strikes as he did balls (22). On top of that, he continued to get great swinging strike rates.
With runners on 1st and 2nd, nobody out and 2 runs already in, this looked like it was going to unravel on the second pass through the line up, but Anderson came out, and whatever he told May lit a fire. He challenged Avisail Garcia with four straight 4 seam fastballs, and struck him out without him moving his bat. Then went 2Seam, Change up and finished up with a 4 seam to get Wilkins swinging. To finish the inning, he played Dayan Viciedo like a fiddle, going slider, four seam and then a slow curve, getting swings and misses on all three. It was a very key moment for a young man who had struggled working out of the stretch.
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