Then, convulsively, he threw his strong arms wide like a man breaking bonds.
Stanton turned his attention to Clark, throwing breaking balls again, until the count was 2-2.
"I couldn't throw breaking pitches in the sixth inning because of it," Taylor said.
You have to be able to throw breaking balls behind in the count.
The slower you threw breaking balls the better it was.
Pitchers often throw breaking balls on 3-0 counts because they do not want to give the hitter too good a pitch to hit.
He didn't have a very good playoff; maybe Detroit didn't throw him many breaking balls.
Tomorrow, he'll go from the mound again and also throw breaking pitches, which put more strain on the elbow.
But the failure to throw more breaking pitches clearly did not sit well with Leiter.
But recently the team could not even tell if he was throwing breaking balls.