Aaron, what was different with Louise Hill tonight compared
to the prior three outings and his strike throwing was
excellent, be way better profile on a fastball.
And then everything else kinda runs in sync with that
. His delivery was good. I thought he,
he didn't have a great feel for the changeup tonight
necessarily and, and I felt like, you know
, lost his delivery on, on a handful of
the changeups he throw, but the slider which is
a pitch he's been working on and um was really
good tonight and that's hands down the best slider we've
seen from him, but it started with the fastball
like he established that thing. He was where he
wanted to be with it. He was strike throwing
with it. And um I mean, that's a
, a very encouraging part of a, you know
, tough end to a tough series. Um,
you know, Luis throwing the ball like that was
there any debate in having Weaver coming in Face Devers
in the seventh a little bit. Uh But,
you know, you know, similar profiles and um
, yeah, a little debate. What, what
made Cutter Crawford so tough to figure out. Yeah
, I mean, he's got that short arm ball's
got some carry to it. Um, I thought
he got it to the spots he wanted to.
It seemed like for the most part, you know
, pitching at the top of the zone, working
the cutter off the slowing you down enough with the
, with the sweeper slider. Um, didn't,
I didn't feel like we saw a ton of splits
from him. Um, and, you know,
we, we had a couple just misses, you
know, where hit the ball, hit the ball
to the fence, had a chance to pressure him
a couple of times and just couldn't finish it off
. Um You know, he beat us tonight.
Who else, Bob to the right? Aaron,
any thought to letting he'll wrap up after the six
and on a good note, uh not after the
six, not with, um, you know,
I felt like he was in a good spot and
definitely wanted him to go out and face the righty
. Um, and, and, and, you
know, at that point, we're right in the
game too and I felt like he was throwing the
ball so well and, you know, kind of
shorten the game with, with Weaver not having a
necessarily a full clip tonight. Um Yeah, I
, I the way Luis was throwing the ball and
where he was, I felt, you know,
very good about him. Um As long as,
you know, he didn't lose, um o'neill or
, you know, get erratic with o'neil or something
or show signs of which I didn't think he was
. Um, so n not, not after the
six. No. Uh, Gary understanding that on
the second home run Devers hits a pitch that's way
outside of the strike zone before that. Is there
any consideration to just avoiding a guy that's been that
successful against you? You mean putting them on right
there? I can see, um, you mean
intentionally walking them? Yeah. Oh no, no
, not, not, not, no, no
, 00, nobody on. Is there something though
with, uh that you guys need to look at
your approach with Devers, you know, understanding how
good a player he is, he's just had so
much success against you guys. Is there something that
you can pinpoint as to why you guys have had
even more trouble than some other teams have? Um
I mean, yeah, um I mean, we
, we, we dig into that a lot.
Um believe me. Um but yeah, I mean
, sometimes that's time and place too in the season
a guy comes in swinging. Well, he's a
great player like, you know, like we,
we see that sometimes on the other side, you
know, um you know, with, with a
couple of our guys. Um Yeah, like we
, we invest a lot into where to get him
. Now most of the time um, pitches he's
hurting with us, you know. Yes, he
hit some pitcher pitches out and hit some great pitches
out but a lot of times he hit some mistake
out too. So, um yeah, but,
but yeah, I mean, he's definitely a guy
that has performed it incredibly well, obviously a great
player. Um And you know, we'd like to
do a better job against him with everything you just
said. Is there a point where you just say
I can't let this guy beat us again? Um
Yeah, but I'm, I'm not gonna walk him
there intentionally walk him with the bases empty and a
00 game. Like we know who he is,
we, we know where he is and you know
, so yeah, I hear you but no,
we're, we're not gonna intentional walk and if,
if, if you're asking on an intentional walk now
obviously being careful and trying to get at spots and
trying to stay away from slug and those kind of
things matter. But you know, that's to me
not even a consideration of putting him on in a
00 game with nobody on base.