These guys have been DOMINANT 😤 Top Cy Young contenders in the AL and NL (Skubal, Skenes, more!)
Jacob Deg Grom 10 and four this season nine and one lifetime against the Phillies and Ben one of the best pitchers of this generation. Now the 2-2 from Deg Grom swinging a down on strikes two away. Turner down on strikes. One away. Great change up here by Deg Grom to punch out Trey Turner. One two to Harper. Strikeout number eight for Deg Grom. And Deg Grom strikes him out swinging. Well, Deg Grom doesn’t hit his spot. You can see Jonah sets in, but at 98 miles an hour, Adele can’t catch up and loses the bat. Two-2 and a swing and a miss. Oh, Hoppy strikes out and the inning is done. Strike three call on the outside corner. Another borderline call that goes to Gro’s way and the crowd’s getting a little surirly here. There is one away. Deg Grom has retired five in a row now. swung on and missed. He chased a slider way outside and Deg Grom now has set down seven in a row. He has punched out six this afternoon. On the bound for the Mariners this afternoon, Brian Woo has been outstanding all season long. Woo 10 and six with a 3.08 RA making his 24th appearance of the year. That works. We’ll take that one. Freezes Alonzo. Swing and a miss. Strike three. That is strikeout number seven for Brian Woo. One, two, strike three call. That was a beauty. Scraping the inner half. A slider. Strike out number eight for Woo. Pete just shaking his head talking to the home plate umpire as he goes back to the dugout there. Really good pitch. Swing and a miss on a fast ball beneath the knees. Four strikeouts for Woo. Fouls it back to the glove of Cal Raleigh. Fifth strikeout for Woo. Two down. I mean, he literally nicked this pitch off the very end of his bat and straight into Cal’s glove. Swing and a miss. He strikes out Machado for the second straight at bat. A beautiful two seam downward movement. Machado swings through. That’s strikeout number six for Woo. And a big out number one here in the six. Turning out to be a beautiful night here in Detroit. We’ve got a great matchup. We just saw TKO, but our guy Hunter Brown, the diesel is back in the Motor City. Called third strike. He went out of the zone for the other 3-2 pitch and then takes one in the zone for a called third. There you go. Got him. Backto back strikeouts to end the inning. Hunter got him. Hunter picks up strikeout number six. And a big second out getting the dangerous Riley Green. Short hop pick by Jeremy Pñena. And the Detroit native Hunter Brown does his hometown proud. Six innings of shutout baseball. There’s one at the bottom of the zone. Netto too close to take on 32. That is right there. Ranifo knew it as he jogs away from the batter spots. Hunter Brown picks up his four strikeouts. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Hunter Brown just locking up Lugo with that curveball. That’s strikeout number five for Hunter. His last three have been called third. Garrick going for win number 14. Excellent last time out. No decision in the Socks loss against Miami 02. He got him. Struck him out. 99-22 and it is in there for strike three. The wind in the 2-2. Swinging a miss. Strike three. Nasty breaking ball again from Garrett Crochet. And he gets to 10ks today. And that’s number 500 in his major league career. And swung on and foul tipped in the mid. Struck out another one. He strikes out the side in the seventh and continues to dominate the Yankees. And a swing and a miss with that sweeper. That is unfair. So good with that. Number seven. Did he hold? No, he went. That’s going to be strike three. Home played umpire. Wolf rings him up. Here comes the crowd. Crochet with a 3-2 and a ground ball up the middle. Stopped by Sedon and he got it. Seven strong out of Garrick Crochet allowing three hits, one run, struck out eight. Terrick Scubel making his 22nd start of the year. That fast ball change up combo is elite. One, two, swinging to miss. Challenge Turner there. He’s just filling up the strike zone. The one two is swinging a miss. A flatooted flail and a change up away. Bader. Strikeout victim number eight for TK Scooles. The O2. Swing and a miss. Got him with the fast ball. 99. Nine strikeouts for TK Scubble. O2 coming. Swing and a miss. Off with his head. Carbon copy. There’s the one two. A check swing. He went around. Willpower versus Scubble. Scooble wins again. There’s one away. Two strikes. Oras is down. 10th strikeout for TKO for the 11th time this year. Crowd on their feet here at Com Park. Scooble claps a hand into the glove as he goes down the dugout steps. Yoshino Yamamoto 2 start coming off a victory in Cincy. And then he beats him with a heater. A strike out on three pitches. Another 02. Gano swinging with the splitter. Yamamoto so dominant against lefties. This nasty splitter. That’s just mean. Yamamoto will try again to get Brandon Laauo. And he does with the splitter. Curve for strike three. First of the game for Yamamoto. The trio of offsp speed pitches been really solid. Kicks and deals 02 and puts bookend Ks on a one two3 second. Another two- two. Got him swinging. Blew a fast ball by him at 97. Yamamoto has tied his careerh high with those 10. Pops it into left. A diving catch by Kik Hernandez. Seven innings. Yamamoto. 10ks matching a careerhigh. And Logan Webb once again eating a ton of innings. Nine and eight with a 3-31. He’s the workhorse. He’s the ace. Big man big man stuff. Goes down swinging here on the change up. He strikes out Gonzalez. Watch this just drop off the table. Here’s Web’s pitch and it’s strike three called. Got him with a slider. Strike out number nine for Logan Webb. He went around. That’s strike three. That was like a foot inside and Gonzalez was thinking it was the sweeper. Can’t hold up. And there is Logan Webb’s 10th strikeout tonight. Got him on three pitches. side. Retire. Got him. Got him. Got him. It’s good stuff. Got him. This time, Web wins the battle. Freddy Peralta makes another home start where he’s 7-1, a 2.13 earned run average. Got him. Three straight sliders and Gonzalez goes down. Got him. Back door slider and Freddy Peralta with a couple of Ks and a flawless first. There’s strike three called. Strike out number six. Got him. Here’s your shutdown innings. Seven strikeouts through five scoreless so far for Freddy Peralta. Six scoreless from Freddy Peralta. Got him. Big sweeping slow curve ball. There’s a strike out for Peralta as he gets Varo. A swing and a miss. And Peralta with a strike out. Good way to start the sixth inning. Freddy picks up his seventh K. He deals a one, two, and a swing and a miss. Got it with a curve. Back door breaking ball. Marger was expecting it to spin over the plate. It never did. Well, I’m sure the Blue Jays are glad to have seen the last of Freddy Peralta. His numbers 24 games, 11 and four, 150 and two/3 innings. Got 157 strikeouts. Swig and a miss. There you go, Johnny. He went with the slider instead of the change up, but it’s sort of the same objective that you talked about. Swig and a miss. He did finally come in and he put 95 right on the inside part of the plate. Swag and a miss. 11 strikeouts. What a dazzling night for Christopher Sanchez. Foul tip. 12 strikeouts for Christopher Sanchez. He’ll give the baseball to Rob Thompson. And an eruption here at Citizens Bank Park. There’s a swing and a miss. And that’s the third strike out as Alvarez is down on strikes. Swing and a foul tip. Got him with a change up. Six strikeouts. That was a big pitch right there. took it. Strike three. Seven strikeouts for Christopher. Oh, he chased all right. He was just swinging. Eight strikeouts tonight for the Pirates. It’s Paul Skins trying to styy the Reds here tonight, but he’s coming off of a month where he was named the National League pitcher of the month. 100 miles an hour. He’s not messing around. Yep. Good luck with that right there. You got him. He got him. Got him to chase the fast ball. Ski are going to leave two more Reds out. And so far that change up has been on. You see right here, this is a change up. Pays way out in front. Shrimps him out. Eight strikeouts for Sk. And the fast ball beats Tyler Freeman there. That strike out number three for Paul Skins. That is strike three. It was all over the outside corner. So after a 2 and 0 start, Fulford is dismissed. And that’s the fourth strike out for Sk. He goes down here to SK on a 98 mph fast for SK. His fifth strike out. One out in the seventh inning. Another strike out for Sk. And he’ll punch out Tovar to undoubtedly end his Sunday afternoon. What a Sunday afternoon again for Paul SK. Seven shutout innings.
This group of elite pitchers enter the final month of the regular season atop the latest AL and NL Cy Young polls.
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