The recap to Sunday’s game was headlined “What’s wrong with Kyle Hendricks?”, though in reality, the outing he had against the Pirates wasn’t that bad overall. While there were several hard-hit outs, many of the hits he gave up were of the seeing-eye variety on soft contact. Weak contact is Kyle’s game, and he’s done that well enough in three of his seven starts this season:
Kyle’s three good starts: 19 innings, 1.42 ERA, 1.052 WHIP, three walks, 18 strikeouts, three HR
Kyle’s four bad starts: 15u2154 innings, 12.06 ERA, 2.