took the mound against the Miami Marlins. They’d lost three straight and seven of their last 10, with a bullpen game Saturday followed by short starts Sunday and Monday draining the relief corps.
“I agree,” said pitching coach Pete Walker. “There’s still a ton of season left and everything else, but you always feel like there are some important games along the way and that was a big game. He knew that we needed to win that game just for our psyche and where we were. He came in on a mission and it’s really the way he’s been over the last several starts.
Perhaps most heartening is the current roll for Kikuchi, who after an off May, has reeled off six consecutive starts of two earned runs or less, all but one of them at least five innings or more. Against the Athletics, he got five swinging strikes on each of the breaking balls, along with another swing and miss on his fastball, which he threw for 11 called strikes and was fouled off six times. Kikuchi regularly shifted between the three pitches, setting down the first 10 batters he faced and going only four over the minimum through seven.
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