Royals Rumblings - News for September 20, 2012
It was a rough start for Jackson Kowar on Sunday, writes Lynn Worthy, but he’ll keep grinding.
“The walks, again, killed me early, and anything I got beat on was just center cut,” Kowar said. “So it really all boiled down to command, I would say. Just not locating pitches either in the zone at all or when they were in the zone catching way too much plate to a couple of guys.”
The outing wasn’t exclusively doom and gloom. Royals manager Mike Matheny and Kowar both pointed to Kowar’s fourth and final inning on the mound as a sign of him getting in sync and pitching more in line with the way he had as he came up through the minor leagues.