What is happening? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast.

You're more pitching podcast from PitcherList.com.

My name is Nick Pollock.

Today is August 2nd and yes.

We are going to talk about baseball.

I apologize.

I didn't get one out yesterday.

Travel day again for me and it just did not work out.

It's all right.

I'm here today.

It wasn't really too much, I think, from Wednesday to talk about, of course, I covered it all inside of the SP roundup and, of course,

the streamers.

We only 10 guys yesterday, so let's get to it.

We had Ben lively as the lead with him going six innings, two and runs, four hits,

one walk, and four strikeouts against the Orioles.

This was actually after the Phillies, which is shocking.

This has Ben Lightley doing well against two elite offenses back to back.

And now he has a 342 ERA, a 1-15 whip, and a 21% strikeout rate this year.

It's kind of nuts. He has 10 wins as well. It's a Vargas rule at the moment.

And what he does really is his neck beard approach with his secondaries and kind of his four seamer yesterday with sinkers

coming over the plate to sneak strikes in the top half of the zone.

It's happened before like this and it's all about when he sneaks in those pitches.

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