But I wanted to get back to the windup and after how big of a clunker my last start was, I thought this was a good time to implement it.
Throwing from the stretch all the time, I felt like it might have taken away some of like my rhythm and aggressiveness.
“He sat in and watched my bullpen in-between starts and we worked on my curveball a lot,” Taillon said.” That was an emphasis.
After Taillon departed a 2-2 game with two outs in the fifth and a runner on first, he was met in the Yankees dugout by Cole, who initiated an ace/No.
“He was just talking about some delivery things about how I’m using my legs over the rubber and how sometimes on my curveball I’ll sit and kind of jump out of it versus sit and ride down the mound with the pitch.
There were other encouraging finer details from Taillon, who limited damage facing a hot division leader with a pitch mix that included a lot more sinkers than usual plus a mindset to be more aggressive in two-strike counts.
“In the past,” Taillon said, “I’ve looked at a two-strike situation and I thought, ‘What does the scouting report call for right here? Where do I need to throw this ball?’ Tonight it was more, ‘I’ve got two strikes, it’s time to get nasty.
Taillon got the fifth-inning hook because Olson was coming up for a third time and manager Aaron Boone wanted lefty Wandy Peralta facing a lefty-swinging slugger who already has 19 homers.
“I definitely felt like I could have kept going, but at the same time Olson took me deep in the first inning and we have Wandy sitting down there ready to go,” Taillon said.
He’s often been frustrated because he’s healthy and his stuff has been good most of the time, yet his 5.59 ERA is among the highest among major league starting pitchers.
I throw a great bullpen, but when it comes down to it, you need to make the pitch when the game’s on the line, when there are runners on base.
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