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Anatomy of an Inning: Tanner Houck’s splitter is the key to his success

Related Topics: Tanner Houck, Jonah Heim

Welcome back to another edition of The Anatomy of An Inning. My name is Jacob Roy, and I pretend to know pitching better than the pitchers themselves. If you’re new here or need a reminder of what this is all about, I take an inning from the previous week of Red Sox baseball and break it down, one pitch at a time. Each pitch should have a purpose, I’m looking at each of them individually to try to go beyond the box score and tell the full story.

The Situation

We’ll go to the second game of the season, as Tanner Houck makes his 2025 debut against the Texas Rangers.