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After he finished receiving praise from his teammates, he returned to the task of silencing the Padres. The streak lasted as Maeda faded in the sixth. First baseman Wil Myers chopped a groundball to first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, who threw to the plate.
But the Twins actually led the AL with a 42 percent hard-hit rate entering Tuesday, and their average exit velocity of 89.7 mph was second only to the Blue Jays. But the results haven’t followed -- just ask Kirilloff, who entered the game 1-for-18 but was hitting the ball well enough for a .293 expected batting average and an expected slugging percentage of .608, per Statcast. The starting rotation has actually been quite effective this season, ranking second in the American League with a 3.72 ERA entering Tuesday. Maeda, the club’s Opening Day starter, hasn’t shared that success as he’s worked through mechanical adjustments. And though Maeda felt good about that work, Cleveland’s batters still tagged his mistakes for three home runs -- one by Ramírez and two from Franmil Reyes. "It's not just the wins and losses, it's the way these games have played out that has made them especially tough to stomach," Baldelli said.
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In the first two games of this three-game series at PETCO Park, the Dodgers outscored the Padres 18-0. Maeda’s homer put them up 5-0 in the fourth inning on Wednesday. Maeda also pitched in the 2015 WBSC Premier12 tournament, where he allowed two earned runs while striking out 14 in 12 innings. Innings over four games and allowed one run on four hits. Right-handed batters had just four hits in 32 at-bats against him in the post-season. Let’s take a look at some of those homers, with the understanding that there is a silver lining for Maeda involved.
In Japan, Maeda had just two home runs in 436 career at-bats spread across eight seasons, so he's not exactly Madison Bumgarner when it comes to running into one. He puts a swing on the ball, though, as you can see above. First and foremost, Dodgers right-hander Kenta Maeda did this in his major-league debut on Thursday night against the Padres ... Far more importantly, he took part in the annual sports-and-comedy competition that translates to "Tonneruzu's Sports King" that aired on TV Asahi over the weekend. Basically, think of all the "training" exercises you can play in a sports video game.
Maeda went deep in Japanese game show
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When Jorge Alcala finally relieved him, the young righthander forced in another run by beaning Jordan Luplow with a 99-mph fastball. Kenta Maeda surrendered six extra-base hits, including three mammoth home runs, and then the Twins' embattled bullpen somehow made things worse. The baseball drifted and drifted toward the left-field corner, its flight awakening the Dodgers dugout. Kenta Maeda sprinted out of the batter’s box but slowed as he approached second base. With one swing, he launched his team’s first home run of the season and created the year’s first moment of unbridled joy.
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Clayton Kershaw thrust his arms skyward and howled. The Padres are the first team in history to be shut out of its first three games. When he has driven the ball down and below the zone, he has produced good results. Thanks to Statcast, we can highlight plate appearance results by location. Here’s what Maeda’s chart looks like this season.
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He won the Sawamura Award as the league's best pitcher in both 2010 and 2015 and was the youngest pitcher in Japanese baseball history to achieve the pitching Triple Crown. The Carp chose to make him available to Major League Baseball teams through the posting system in December 2015. In the 2013 World Baseball Classic, and said he would use the tournament to assess his desire to compete in MLB, based on how he fared against their hitters. Maeda started two games in the pool rounds, against China and Netherlands, amassing a 2–0 record with 0.00 ERA, 0.30 WHIP, allowing just two hits, one walk striking out 15 in 10 innings. He was the losing pitcher in the semi-finals against Puerto Rico despite only allowing one run in five innings.
The first chart is from 2016, while the second represents what he has done this year. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. About Baseball Reference Batting Glossary, Pitching Glossary, Wins Above Replacement Explainer, WAR data archive, BR Data Coverage, Frequently Asked Questions about MLB and Baseball, ... "Whatever I was doing last year was not the best version of me," he said. He’ll try to find that version in Los Angeles on his one-year contract. It was the first home run of the season for the Dodgers, who to this moment have outscored the Padres 23-0 in three games this season.
An increase in fly balls invariably means an increase in homers allowed but the bigger issue is that a greater percentage of those are leaving the yard. Maeda’s HR/FB ratio this season is 22.6%, which, again, would easily lead the league in a typical season. Last year, Maeda posted an 11.8% HR/FB ratio, which was tied for 47th in the majors. As a team, the Dodgers are completely obliterating San Diego.
In the fourth inning, he hit his second double of the night, and was driven in by Miguel Sano. Of course, Sano then tried to steal second because ahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... Maeda is allowing a lot more fly balls this season, and a larger share of those are ending up in the seats.
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