Postgame: Marlins Upset Cardinals 5-4

[Namaste]

Discuss

Fernandez K's 10

Stanton crushing the ball. 3 hits and 2 RBI

Pierre 2 for 4 with a SB

[HUGG]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Ua7yJhdcA[/ame]

[Chewford]

It was nice to get the win, Jose was quite excellent, but unfortunately the win means Hugg had to go and post that fucking video again.

[Beef]

Do I have to check the box score to find out what combo of players went 0-something?

[HUGG]

Marlins record when each pitcher starts:

Jacob Turner   2-1  .667
Jose Fernandez 7-6  .538
Kevin Slowey   4-9  .308
Alex Sanabia   3-7  .300
Ricky Nolasco  3-11 .214
Tom Koehler    1-5  .167
Wade LeBlanc   0-7  .000

[Todd]

WOOOOOOOOOOO
STYLIN AND PROFILIN

[Erick]

I feel like one of the good things about this year have been the improvements of Mike Dunn.

I don't know if they plan on hanging on to him or if they'll end up trading him, but he's gotten better.

While his walk rate is still high, he's showing signs of improvement. A 66.1% F-strike % (career 57.1) and ~54 zone% (career 48.4) makes it somewhat weird that his walk rate is so high.

His swstrk% is up to 11.3% this year which is good considering it went all the way down to 7.8 last year.

He is also getting more groundballs this year (46.2%). That is a big improvement considering he's always been an extreme flyball pitcher (career GB rate of 38%). It's helped him reduce the amount of HR's given up which is always good.

Line drives are also down this year. 15.4% this year... when it was all the way up to 28.1% last year.

All in all, he's down to a 2.83 ERA (3.17 FIP).