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I *am* sure you're right Kelly that --- > League pitches into the teeth of batters sitting dead red because --- > he doesn't have any confidence in a splitter thrown up in the zone.
The Indians game, though, the swings they took were those of a team that had recently acquired League's pitches. That's a bit of cognitive dissonance.
And no Mariner reliever, not even Ayala or Sanders, has ever had 4 L's in 4 consecutive outings. If we didn't know better, we'd think that League's cover was recently "blown."
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Brandon League is going to have to throw splitter for called strike ones whether he likes it or not. He can console himself with the fact that Sasaki faced the same problem.
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