Despite some decent results, it’s been at least a month since Luis Castillo really looked like Luis Castillo. His last four pitch charts, for example, do not show the kind of clear pitch separation or living on the edges that you want to see out of your ace.
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You’d think this was a lead-in to describing the first dominant outing in a while, but it’s not. La Piedra once again had the edges sanded down today, throwing too many pitches either down the chute or too far outside the zone to be tempting.