Tyler Glasnow’s strong start wasted as Brewers shut out Dodgers

Tyler Glasnow’s problems have been the same for years.

Spend too much time taken in your own head, and not enough time by launching on the mound.

Since the Dodgers acquired the high right -wing right, tagged and southern California, these two problems have afflicted the acquisition of $ 136.5 million in a way that frustrated it, the team and its fans base.

Glasnow made 22 departures last year (a career summit in his career in injuries) before an elbow problem surrounded to finish his season early. This quarter, he managed only five departures before his shoulder begins to bark, landing him on the injured list for another prolonged passage.

Through all this, Glasnow has spoke several times about the need to be more “external” on the mound – focuses more on the execution and the level of competition than the ailments and the pains of his body and imperfections in his childbirth.

However, with each new setback, the veteran launcher was left rushing to get answers, constantly tinkering with his mechanics and working with his state of mind in the hope of hitting a balance between the two.

This is why, while Glasnow approached his last return to action, he tried to simplify things. For real, this time.

No more concern for the angle of the spine and the release point. More reflections in the middle of the game on the many mobile parts of his launching sequence.

“I don’t even know,” he said when he asked last week how he changed his mechanics during his last absence, the kind of physical ignorance that could actually be a good thing in the case of 31 years.

“I go out and I am athletic and I am not trying to look at it. And if there is something I need to repair, or something that coaches see, then I worry. But I just go out … [and] enter this rhythm. Return to a starting routine. »»

Two starts, this new routine seems promising.

After launching five solid rounds from a ball to Milwaukee racing last week, Glasnow started the second half of the season with another step before Friday, turning a gem of six sleeves and a round in the 2-0 defeat of the Dodgers against the Brewers at Dodger Stadium.

“I have been feeling good since rehabilitation, to make changes and stuff,” said Glasnow. “Feel solid right now. So I have to continue.”

While the Dodgers (58-40) came out of the stars break, few players seemed crucial to their long-term success than Glasnow.

The club counts on him and his other signator from the free free figure agent Blake Snell (who, like Glasnow, missed almost the entire first half with a shoulder injury but could be back in action by the end of the month) to strengthen a rotation that has very missed.

We hope they will be able to join Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and in a certain title, Shohei Ohtani, at the forefront of a pitch staff, seeking a significant improvement when he tries to repeat as champions of the World Series.

Admittedly, the Dodgers – who would like to avoid adding a launcher leaving on the deadline for trade, and who may have trouble finding an addition of impact such as Jack Flaherty last summer even if they tried – had similar hopes for Glasnow last season.

Even when he fell with his elbow injury in mid-August, the initial wait was that he would be back in time for the thrust of the playoffs.

Instead, Glasnow’s elbow has never stopped disturbing it. When he tried to accelerate for a live stick training session in mid-September, he actually disconnected his season where his arm still did not feel well.

Since then, Glasnow has lived in a world of frustration, spending his winter trying to make a healthier delivery to encounter more problems during the first month of this season.

“Talent is certainly undeniable,” said manager Dave Roberts last week, before Glasnow. “But I think for me, for us, you want reliability. It’s something I’m looking for Tyler from now on. To find out what you are going to get this ball each fifth or sixth day.”

Friday, Glasnow produced a model that deserves to be followed in an exhibition of four strokes and six strokes.

A flashing of the rapid ball speed increased for the second consecutive outing – regularly hitting 98-99 MPH on the pistol – he filled the striking area early, going after the strikers with his four high -end sailors and increasing the dependence on a late breakage well.

“It is like the only field with which I can be late, and it is in the area,” said Glasnow about his lead, that he had launched sparingly before injuring himself. “I don’t necessarily need to be perfectly synchronized for him to have a lot of movement. I think if I’m late, it’s my go-to. “

Its large curve, on the other hand, turned out to be a perfect complement, Glasnow pulling the chain for awkward swings and soft contact.

He withdrew the first five strikers he faced and did not let a ball come out of the inner field until the simple of Brice Turang in third. He was late to go to the mound at the beginning of the fourth, which led to an automatic ball at the head striker, but remained imperturbable, removing the side in order.

Caleb Durbin from Milwaukee hits a double race double in front of the receiver Dodgers Will Smith in the fifth round on Friday.

(Mark J. Terrall / Associated Press)

Glasnow bordered the fifth against Milwaukee (57-40). Suddenly, struggling to locate the ball, he walked Isaac Collins, the head striker in the advance on five fields before abandoning a double RBI at Caleb Durbin in an account of 2 and 0, when he left a lead at the heart of the plate.

But then, he settled, escaped the Channel without further damage, and worked around a single with a single Jackson Chourio in sixth grade by removing William Contreras and Christian Yelich.

“It’s not shot [my brain] Completely, “said Glasnow about his new mentality at the time.” But it is not like, when I feel bad, I overlap more: “How do we distribute that?” In contrast to loving: “This is what I had today. Let’s just get it. And I think it was due in large part to changes. I’m just in a better position right now to go out and be athletic. »»

The exit marked the first time of Glasnow by finishing six innings since April 13 against Chicago Cubs, and was its first start of this type to give only one race deserved since June of last year.

“He was able to stay in his pace, stay in his delivery, be in competition mode,” said Roberts. “I think he’s in a very good place. He is in good health, in confidence. And we are better for that, that’s for sure. ”

Unfortunately for Glasnow, he was the second best launcher in the bump on Friday. In front of him, the right -hander of young Brewers, Quinn PRIESTER, dominated the Dodgers on six goals aimlessly, recording the second withdrawal of his career by being part of 10 years. The veteran in difficulty Kirby Yates did not help in the relief of Glasnow, constantly, the abandonment of an end of domicile in Durbin in the seventh who sent the Dodgers to a disappointed defeat.

“They throw us well,” said Roberts about the Brewers, who have won four consecutive games against the Dodgers in the past two weeks while only abandoning four points in total. “We gave ourselves a chance, but we couldn’t gather anything tonight.”

However, for a team with a comfortable division advance and the shortest ratings of the World Series of all clubs in the majors, obtaining a good start -up launch remains the most urgent large -scale concern for dodgers.

At the end of last year, and for a large part of the first half of this season, Glasnow could not help. Now he could finally show flashes he can.

“”[I want to] Go out and be athletic, “said Glasnow last week.” Get out and help. “”