“I wasn’t anticipating having to go through that again for the rest of this year,” Lovullo said of being swept in four games again. “But, you know, we’ve got to digest this one as quickly as possible.”
“Chase rate was a little bit too high,” Lovullo said. “We’ve just got to continue to be patient and preach patience to these hitters and let them understand how important it is to eliminate chase and force a pitcher to get on the plate and make mistakes and then we punish mistakes.