Bradenton, Fla. — Game of adjustments, right? You hear that phrase day after day, year after year, around the game of baseball.
Here’s what that looks like:
Tigers right-hander Casey Mize got two quick strikes on veteran right-handed hitter Todd Frazier leading off the second inning Monday at LECOM Park, but he couldn’t put him away. He threw him splitters and breaking pitches, tantalizing ones just off the plate, and Frazier never flinched.
As Mize immediately realized, after Frazier took another borderline non-fastball for ball four, that he wasn’t swinging at anything spinning.