DENVER – Before Saturday night’s 9-1 beatdown of the Arizona Diamondbacks by the Colorado Rockies, Bud Black talked about the adjustments he was hoping to see out of starting pitcher Tyler Anderson.
“He’s got to pitch better,” he said. “That means locating the ball. His style of pitching is disrupting the timing, changing speeds and hitting good spots with all of his pitches and he hasn’t done that this year.”
Until now.
Anderson pitched by far his best game of the season in a big divisional win, going six innings allowing just one hard hit ball and becoming the first Rockies starter to reach double-digit strikeouts this season.