“I had a really good feel for it tonight. I was able to move it all over the plate. It’s getting to the plate and then it’s falling off the plate. I think that's the biggest thing - just being able to read the hitters' swings and see those large swings where they think it's in the zone and then it's gone.”īut Ray was also his usual self in leaving one of those diminished heaters - just 92.5-m.p.h. on a pitch he’s averaged 94.1 with this season - up and over the plate in the third inning, which Mariners catcher Tom Murphy gave a ride into the left field seats for a two-run shot. It was Ray’s lone blemish on a night that lowered his ERA to 2.88, trailing only Lance Lynn among qualified AL starters. Home runs have been the only thing holding Ray back from a truly extraordinary season, as he entered Friday’s start having allowed 1.59 HR/9, MLB’s fifth-highest rate. A 16.8 per cent HR/FB rate - above Ray’s already-inflated career average and seventh-highest across MLB - certainly contributes to that.
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