Roki Sasaki of Dodgers turns in the beginning of rebound: “He knows he can do it here”

Filadelphia – A week ago, Roki Sasaki looked for an escape route from below. The 23 -year -old was unable to identify his fast ball or identify something, and started after only five outs, disappearing along the tunnel towards the Club House. His manager convened him to look at the consequences. So Sasaki sat down along the railing, with red eyes, and looked. The video fed the speculation that the young appetizer had cried, arousing a tour of criticism from Former great leaguersadding fuel to a baseball audience already irritated by his choice to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers. For the Japanese media, Sasaki denied crying.

A week later, he found Euphoria. The grass talent had transformed the best beginning of his career into a great league to date, dominating the Philadelphia Phillies in a Rauco ballpark. Yet he was still standing along the railing, distressing on the two basic runners he had left for Anthony Banda to manage. As a gang fled, Sasaki raised his extravagant structure on top of the track and roar.

What a difference was for the Japanese phenomenon, which returned to the Major League baseball on the track in the 3-1 victory of the Dodgers.

Dave Roberts was unable to helplessly to tempts the expectations for Sasaki in the accumulation. Sasaki still represents an unknown, a blinding talent pitcher who for at least two departures of the great league had no clue had no idea where he was going on the baseball ball. His first start on the road did not represent a soft landing. This series, in this baseball field, is a “barometer” for each of these two clubs on the initial list of the season, said Roberts. The introduction of a rookie that crossed the struggles of Sasaki seemed to add the kerosene to a flames.

Instead, Sasaki put something on the screen that the baseball managers had dreamed of it was possible for him, allowing a race out of four inning and launching enough competitive blows to show off the only Arsenal that made this winter thus sought. This is what everyone needs.

“He knows he can do it here,” said Roberts.

The Dodgers urged Sasaki to be aggressive with his fast ball. His devastating splitter would be useless without first establishing everything else in the strike area.

“It’s all,” said Roberts. “When you are facing beats of the great league who are very disciplined, they will be patient. I only think that the approach at this moment, until otherwise shown, will try waiting for him and forces him to be in the hit area. If he is in the strike area, then you can make the screenplay fall a little.”

Both trust or blunt strength of miserable results, Sasaki has adapted and listened to. The Catcher Austin Barnes was behind the dish for Sasaki’s Bullpens session between the beginning, in which Sasaki modified the way his lower half worked in his delivery. Something has clicked. Sasaki was able to put things where he wanted.

“I felt I had something,” Sasaki said through the interpreter Will Ireton. “The last time, I felt like I wanted to launch blows, but I couldn’t. I really worked on my mechanics from that game and I really felt as if I were able to do it today.”

The change has aroused some confidence. Before the beginning, Sasaki found Barnes. He pushed his receiver, telling him: “Let’s go” in English. He relaxed. Strikes followed.

The Phillies, apparently prepared for such a tone, jumped out of two of the first fast balls they could see from Sasaki for the individuals. One of them would mark.

However, aggression has opened everything else. He would not have allowed another shot to his latest nightfielder. The more the fast ball used in the strike area and went on, the more he could use his splitter. “It’s the best shot I’ve ever seen,” Banda said this spring. “One of the best splitters I’ve ever caught,” said Catcher Will Smith only a week ago. The tone falls, the knuckles and diving and makes those who oscillate seem foolish.

The Phillies oscillated to 10 of them and lost five times. All four of Sasaki’s Strikeouts arrived on the pitch.

“It’s a crazy tone,” said Barnes, who was behind the dish again on Saturday.

“The splitter on the one hand seemed to be launched (Tyler) Glasnow’s Curveball,” said Max Muncy. “This is the type of movement aside. I know it is not the same, but the bottom is falling.”

Sasaki launched himself in the fifth inning for the first time in his short career, issuing a walk and a single to lead out of the frame before Roberts came and summoned him. The right arm had to look while Banda tried to keep an advantage of a race. The Dodgers benefited from a fool: when Bryson Stott broke through the second base on a whole offer, he missed the contact that saw the plate of the house. Kyle Schwarber’s lining went directly to Teoscar Hernández in the right field. The launch that followed Hernández beat STOTT at the first basis to end inning before JT Realmuto could score from the third base.

“A big game,” said Roberts. It was the closest that the Phillies would return to score again for the rest of the night.

Sasaki could smile. So could the Dodger.

“I crossed the week feeling a little anxious,” said Sasaki. “I was looking for something I could feel safe about.”

Clearly, he found something. Pushing it until the next exit, and then to the next, is an attractive thought.

“Everything is under a microscope at this moment, because of all the hype,” said Kiké Hernández, who crossed the Homer of two shots. “But if it had been another random name that he fought for their first two departures, nobody would have made a big problem. So I think the child will go more than everything well, and he has shown that today. There is no need to panic for one or two bad exits.”

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