Erick Fedde threw 36 pitches in the first inning of his last outing before tonight, giving up three hits, two walks, and two runs in the opening frame, and he settled in, but after three scoreless frames, in which he threw 38 pitches total, he gave up two more runs before his manager, Davey Martinez, pulled the plug on his start with two out in the fifth.
“I felt good,” Fedde said, as quoted by MASN’s Bobby Blanco after what ended up a 10-8 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
“I think that first inning, I just felt a little rushed, didn’t have my rhythm.