A sinking fastball away is easier for a groundball/pull hitter to not roll over on than a sinking fastball in. The sinking fastball away, the contact/groundball hitters on this team were trained in the old regime to play pepper with and serve it into right and center. Lopez is actually pretty darned good at this now. The ball down and in...it starts out looking like the happy-zone pitch for a pull hitter and Lopez and Johjima could be seen twisting themselves deep enough into the ground to strike oil and hitting a barrage of 2-hoppers to third. Seriously, Doc...look at some of the game logs for starts against Feldman and Loux...the Mariners weren't hitting lots of flyballs to left center field. They were grounding out. A lot. A REALLY lot. Loux, for exmaple, in his first start against the Mariners got 11 consecutive outs on the ground. Feldman nearly shutting us out back in May needed his outfielders a grand total of 5 times. That's COUNTING the balls they had to pick up and throw back in that somehow squeaked through the infield.