His Game by Blue Saffire5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() “It’s like any pitch, the more you throw it, usually the better it’s going to get as the game goes on.” “As the game went on, I just felt more comfortable with it,” Gausman said of his splitter. ![]() The Mariners struck out 19 times overall. Of those, 20 whiffs came off his splitter, also a career-high. Gausman generated 28 swing-and-misses, a career-high. As suggested, the splitter was in particularly fine form. Over seven shutout innings, he recorded a career-high 13 strikeouts, while scattering six hits and one walk.Īll game, the Mariners were getting fooled by Gausman’s fastball-splitter combination. Daulton Varsho hit a walk-off single in the 10th inning to seal the extra-innings victory on Saturday, the Blue Jays’ sixth straight win.Įven since signing a five-year deal with Toronto before last season, Gausman has been excellent for the Blue Jays, but this might have been his finest outing in a Toronto uniform. ![]() Gausman rode that dancing splitter all the way through a superb outing in which the Blue Jays outlasted the Mariners 1-0 in an unlikely pitchers’ duel that featured last-minute call-up Easton McGee on the other side. ![]()
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