Living Low
Noah Syndergaard continues to show great command of his fastball and curveball, throwing nearly all of his pitches below the hitter’s belt. In yesterday afternoons start, Syndergaard threw only seven of his 101 pitches above the belt with one of those pitches coming intentionally during Ryan Howard’s first inning at-bat in an attempt to induce a strikeout swinging. The other six were hanging curveballs, three of which came in the same at-bat against Chase Utley in the third inning. None of the pitches left up in the strike zone led to a hit.