Since there will be no live Cubs baseball for the foreseeable future, I’m planning on running this “Statcast Play of the Day” series in the meantime. It will highlight unique plays over the last couple of years, with commentary backed by Statcast metrics.
First up is the Twitter King Yu Darvish, who struck out the Cardinals’ Matt Carpenter on a filthy splitter on September 22 last year. Before showing the strikeout, I want to bring attention to the pitch that set up the splitter. Darvish threw a 1-1 cutter in the same “tunnel” that he eventually used to get the batter two pitches later.