Logan Webb and the San Francisco Giants are on a fact-finding mission.
Webb’s numbers in 22 regular-season starts from May 11 of last season through April 13 this year: 130⅓ innings, 101 hits, 135 strikeouts, 2.28 ERA. His past four: 21⅓ innings, 32 hits, 17 strikeouts, 5.48 ERA. Webb went six innings on Opening Day, then became the first pitcher in baseball to complete eight innings in his next start. He didn’t allow more than a run in either start. By all indications, the pitcher Webb was for the second half of last season was the same one the Giants would get in his first full season leading the staff.Webb concedes the workload caught up to him after his first two starts.
“I feel like there’s so much more there,” Webb said. “But I look at last year at this time, my numbers were a lot worse.”Webb has developed a new habit this season: watching hitters’ reactions as their well-hit fly balls die in outfielders’ gloves. It’s no secret the ball isn’t flying the same way this season, and Webb sees hitters leaguewide changing their approach.
“That’s just the nature of the beast,” fellow starter Alex Wood said of the league’s adjustments. “A team gets a little success on a certain game plan … and another team that’s here the next week, there’s things they can pick up, and they’ll try, too. … It’s all cyclical, man. Logan’s a smart kid.”
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