Cubs starter Keegan Thompson needed less than a minute to strike out Reds star Joey Votto in the fourth inning to end the frame.
Thompson started with a low curveball. Whiff.
Cutter. Ball, inside.
Four-seamer, almost the same spot. Foul.
Cutter at the top of the zone. Whiff. Strike three.
Only 58 seconds had elapsed.
“I think naturally when you’re doing well,” Thompson told the Sun-Times this week, “you want to get back on the mound and keep going.”
Thompson maintained his up-tempo delivery in the Cubs’ 5-3 loss to the Reds on Tuesday through a career-high 6 u2153 innings.