EN LA LOMA / ON THE MOUNTAIN

Leaving aside the impressive winning streak of the Tampa Rays team, we will now focus on what the pitchers are doing so far, some pretty impressive performances that if we do not analyze well their performances are truly what every team needs, and if this trend continues we will have several pitchers with 20 wins, It is not unreasonable to think that way when we see a Pablo Lopez that has been very good for his new team, accumulating 26 strikeouts in his first 3 starts, a Sonny Gray with a metric effectiveness, a performance of 8 blank innings and 8 strikeouts this week by Corbin Burnes and the already expected performance of Shohei Ohtani that according to still must improve, something by the Japanese player that I do not know if he says it for being humble or is a purely perfectionist pitcher.

DUPLA DOMINANTE / DOMINANT DUO

To compete in the central division of the American League and in any other in the big leagues, you must have a good pitching staff, and this is what the Minnesota Twins have achieved with the addition of Venezuelan Pablo Lopez to their ranks, who thanks to his great talent and together with Sonny Gray make up in these first change one of the best combinations of 1 and 2 in MLB, and whose performances have been enough to position the Minneapolis team in the first place in the center, not for less between the two of them they gather most of the wins of their team, which is extremely valuable if you want to conquer a place in this side of the league.

The change of league has not affected the Venezuelan Lopez, on the contrary he looks more dominant and in his first three appearances he has accumulated a total of twenty innings of work for an effectiveness of 1. 35 and 26 strikeouts, highlighting his last outing against the Chicago White Sox, rivals of his division, where he worked for 7 innings and a third conceding only 2 runs to retire 10 opponents by strikeout, and his teammate Gray, who in his first 3 starts his numbers are better than those of Pablo, totaling 17 innings, 10 hits and strike out 19, a duo that will really give a lot to talk about.

TOMANDO FORMA / TAKING SHAPE

We are a little far from what it was said he was going to do this season Corbin Burnes, but it is a matter of time for him to be where he belongs, thanks to his other teammates from the mound and an excellent start of the Milwaukee Piggies in the middle of the National League, this performance so good collectively makes Burnes recovers and gives time for that effectiveness of 5. 19 and 10 runs allowed in 17 innings of work, gradually valla taking shape and return to be the pitcher who was the 2021 season, where he managed to win the Cy Young Award, proof of this his last performance against the Arizona Diamondbacks, which showed that talent that at times we put in doubt at the beginning of the season in 2023.

Frente a Arizona y de visitante el dia miercoles, Burnes trabajo como en los buenos tiempos, durante 8 entradas completas solo permitió 3 indiscutibles para ponchar a 8 contrarios y no permitir boletos, dejándonos ver que lo ocurrido en sus primeras presentaciones fue obra de la mala fortuna o mala preparacion, su actuacion en el desierto de Arizona nos evidencia de que el talento sigue ahí y que en los próximos compromisos en donde el oriundo de Bakersfield California este en el morrito, serán con actuaciones como esas, de las que ya nos tiene acostumbrados y de las que el equipo de los Cerveceros necesita para poder acceder a la postemporada, algo que se les escapó de las manos la temporada pasada.

Against Arizona and away on Wednesday, Burnes worked like in the good old days, during 8 complete innings he only allowed 3 hits to strike out 8 opponents and did not allow tickets, showing us that what happened in his first presentations was the result of bad luck or bad preparation, His performance in the Arizona concert is evidence that the talent is still there and that in the next games where the native of Bakersfield California is in the bullpen, will be with performances like those, of which we have become accustomed and of which the Brewers team needs to access the postseason, something that escaped from their hands last season.

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EL DICE QUE NECESITA MEJORAR / HE SAYS HE NEEDS TO IMPROVE

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Hearing this about Shohei Ohtani can be synonymous of 2 things, one, that the man is a professional which I believe he is, and wants to give his best every day and the other is that he is humble, Ohtani's performance doesn't seem to be enough every time he gets on the mound for the Angels team, who in spite of being in first place in the American League ''West'' division, they don't do much when the Japanese player sees action throwing his streamers, something that I see that is wasted from the point of view that if he were in another team with more offensive support, maybe he would have more victories to his credit.

When I talk about the performances of this talented player, I see that he tries very hard for the little support he receives, and although in his three outings where he should already have 3 decisions, he has only 2 wins, he has a record of 2y0 with 24 strikeouts, two wins by the minimum, which at another stage of the season may not be sure wins, the effectiveness is astounding, he has an average of 0. 47, something that the Angelinos should take advantage of these days to achieve the necessary wins to finally be present in the month of October, for this the Nipon continues working, adapting and making the best effort to achieve perfection, making and showing pitches that neither the manager himself and the different coaches have seen them pitch before, perhaps what has been shown so far by him is not the best? if there is something better in him it would be truly impressive and I would like to see it, dawn and we will see.

HASTA LA PRÓXIMA / SEE YOU NEXT TIME