3/22ST Cubs (Prior) @ Padres (Maddux) 3:05CT CSN & XM180

[jjgman21]

is hill hitting 95?

 

That's what I meant about the gun. If they're clocking Maddux near 90 and Hill at 95, then Prior was probably sitting at 87-91. But whatever, velocity is less important to me at this point than keeping the ball down and hitting his spots.

 

Oh yeah, Rich Hill is still awesome.

 

Most of Maddux's readings seemed accurate though, and Hill's other pitches were around 91. Could've just been a couple outliers.

 

I just watched the replay and came in at the beginning of the second. I watched the radar on every pitch, and this is the best assessment of what was going on.

 

I think the gun was pretty accurate a vast majority of the time and Prior was consistently at 91 and did in fact hit that 93 against Green (and to back up the '95 is off the bat speed' for hill, on a flyout to center by a Pad against Prior, a "97" flashed up). Maddux was consistently gunned at Maddux velocity (85-86). Len commented that 'Prior is around Greg Maddux' velocity, 85-86' during the top half of the second regarding Prior's performance in the first.

 

where Roto got their "90" and whoever got "topped out at 89" is beyond me. he was consistently at 91 from the beginning of the second.

 

oh, and the first batter he walked in the third was a result of dropping his arm slot. his velocity dropped to 87 and he had a ton of tailing movement. Barrett saw it, went out and talked to Prior, and he got right back in the groove of 90-91.

[98navigator]

Foxsports

 

News: Mark Prior was more impressive Thursday, allowing just a first-inning run in four frames against the Padres.

Impact: Prior's velocity got better as the start went on, and he hit 90 mph on the gun a couple of times during the second half of the start. He also appeared to have his best curveball so far this spring. The performance is unlikely to get him a rotation spot to open the season, but it leads to more hope that he'll contribute sometime within the first month.

[CoolHandLuke]

Has there been any talk of Rich Hill dropping down sidearm for the one pitch? Has he ever been known to do that in the past? I have certainly never seen it before.

[Balsa]

Good! It's about time he got angry.

:roll:

 

Because the reason he wasn't pitching well before was that he was too nice.