Tonight Justin Dunn will toe the rubber for the Mariners, facing off against the Angels for the second time in less than a week. Dunn’s maiden voyage of the season occurred this past Wednesday and, well, it could have gone better. While he often started out in favorable counts, Dunn found himself in full counts twice in the first, twice in the second, again in the third, and once more in the fourth. Dunn was trying to mix his pitches, adding in the changeup he’s been working on since last season plus the new cutter he’s been playing around with along with pal Justus Sheffield, to complement his fastball-slider pairing, but he struggled to land the off-speed pitches, throwing his slider for a ball almost as often as for a strike (of note: Gameday classifies several of Dunn’s pitches as curves instead of sliders; Brooks Baseball and Savant call them all sliders, so that’s what we’re going with).
So about that pitch Justin Dunn threw Shohei Ohtani
