{"id":59346,"date":"2022-08-29T03:53:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T03:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-two-plots-converge-as-seattle-beats-cleveland-4-0\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T03:53:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T03:53:36","slug":"the-two-plots-converge-as-seattle-beats-cleveland-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-two-plots-converge-as-seattle-beats-cleveland-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"The two plots converge as Seattle beats Cleveland 4-0"},"content":{"rendered":"
An idea, which is often misattributed to Leo Tolstoy or John Garnder, holds that there are only two plots: a man goes on a journey and a stranger comes to town. This afternoon’s Mariners game had both.<\/p>\n
Robbie Ray’s starts are always a journey, and the terrain today was the Guardians lineup. The world-building for this story can come from two background facts: The average starter’s four-seam fastball has a whiff rate of 9.9% and the Cleveland Guardians lineup has a league-leading whiff rate of just 9.0%.<\/p>\n
So it was really quite something that Robbie Ray was able to collect nine whiffs on the 30 times that Guardians swung at his four-seamer today. Ray had all his pitches working today, but the cheese stood alone. He was overpowering, expelling energy up and down the strike zone. Even though he averaged just 93 mph today, when he got it up in the zone, the Guardians kept swinging underneath it.<\/p>\n