Luis Severino is back again, y’all. And the stuff looks intact! He managed to get through nearly five innings with just 75 pitches to work with, and more importantly than seeing just a high-velocity fastball or the nasty slider movement by itself, he seemed to have his full arsenal intact. Sevy worked with all the weapons that he usually has to put hitters away three times in a game. That’s the dynamic I wanted to look at with this sequence, although it’s not a very exciting one on the surface.
Highlighting an individual sequence can be fun, and telling, but sometimes, to get a sense of a pitcher’s feel for their arsenal, you have to look at how a pitcher approaches the same hitter multiple times during a game.