When 25-year-old starter MacKenzie Gore is at his best, as he was at times while striking out 11 over five innings on the road in Oakland during the last road trip, he’s really something.
“It’s beautiful,” Davey Martinez said after the southpaw dominated the Athletics and kept the home team off the board in a 3-1 win in Oakland Coliseum.
“He goes out there and he attacks the strike zone, you know?” Martinez said.
“He goes out there and competes. This is — hopefully, we can now see that consistency.”
Gore went fastball heavy against the A’s, throwing his four-seamer for 52 of his 90 pitches, (58%), and generating 28 swings and 12 whiffs on the pitch, which averaged 97.