He just needed an in-game practice throw to get his arm vectored in to the new surroundings, **** triangulated and whatnot. That was a laser.
Semien laced that double and the pitch ended up dead center in the strike zone, but it had good movement. Peacock surrendering plenty hard contact though... now, he's gone. Hopefully Sipp holds them down and we score enough.
Little did Jordan Jankowski know that when he taught Astros teammate Brad Peacock how to throw a slider in 2016, he would help turn Peacock into one of the best strikeout pitchers in baseball. Peacock is 10-1 with a 3.20 ERA and 107 strikeouts in 87 innings this year and leads the Astros in wins. If he were to toss a few more innings this year, his 11.8 strikeouts per nine innings would rank fourth in baseball. Much of that can be traced back to his decision to scrap his old slider and ask Jankowski for help while they were at Triple-A Fresno. "To tell you the truth, the past couple of years what I was doing really wasn’t working too well so I had to change some stuff last year," Peacock told Omnisport. "I did it at the All-Star Break in Triple-A. I changed my arm angle and learned a new pitch from one of my buddies and just practiced it down there and brought it to the season." http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/new...st-valuable-pitcher/tlyotq19vp5y11mtj35p7e69b
