What Clay Holmes threw in his Mets debut

In his first start as a Met yesterday—and first major league start since 2018—Clay Holmes was just alright. The Astros scored three runs against him, two of them earned, in four-and-two-thirds innings. He threw 89 pitches, 53 of them for strikes, and struck out four while issuing four walks.

A baseball season doesn’t get any earlier than this, and while we’re waiting for things to play out so we can come closer to making conclusions about players later in the season, we can look at the information that’s available to us. So here’s what Holmes threw against the Astros’ right-handed-heavy lineup in the start and how many times he threw each pitch, per Brooks Baseball.

Sinker: 44

Slider: 35

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