What is happening? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast, your morning pitching podcast from PitcherList.com.

My name is Nick Pollock. Today is September 18th. Happy birthday to my sister.

And yes, we are going to talk about baseball. Nathan Ievaldi, 4.2 winnings of seven runs.

11 hits, two walks, 4Ks. No! Not what we needed you the most.

So now what do you do? If you're in a head-tide league that ends on Sunday, well, you're not going to need them for the rest of the week,

so we move on. And if you are in a league that lasts through next week, he's going to get to the

athletics. And I'm just going to tell you right right now you should just start Eivaldi and not really think about this. Now I do want to mention if you are behind the eight ball or the Nate ball

as I made it for the SP roundup today, do not go into emergency mode quite yet unless you've been

really paired up with some of the other bad starts we've already seen and you have a major

gap between you and your opponent. But if it's just this one game,

don't fret because they are likely going to have one of these two and don't all of a sudden

compile all the stats, all the wins and K's and throw away ratios quite yet because they

might have one of those tonight or tomorrow and then Friday you

guys are even and all of a sudden you're like oh no I shouldn't have started Basso

necessarily and risked that one something along those lines right not saying you

shouldn't necessarily start Basso but I'm not a big fan of that one as I think the

Cubs are a little bit too good and by the way Jack Cahannowitz

a little bit better because he does get a better win chance with Gere Coucher moved to Friday

not starting today that benefits Cohanowicz all right other guys from yesterday's games

ty Lord Miguel yes Ty Lord as he got the win against the national six innings zero runs to

its two walks four case he

didn't really have his cutter slider doing amazing things with the fastball worked really well same with

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