Marco Gonzales vs. Jon Lester, 3:40pm
It’s a day game today, pitting Gonzaga product Marco Gonzales against Bellarmine HS product Jon Lester. As always, the most conflicted man watching this game must be M’s head groundskeeper Bob Christofferson, who coached Lester as a youngster.
I continue to marvel at Marco Gonzales’ transformation this year. His velocity is still down – noticeably- from 2018, which was down from 2017. Instead of confusing batters with 4 pitches each thrown 25% of the time, Marco’s more selective, with three pitches in his tier 1 arsenal, and then 2 more a tier 2 “every once in a while” group.