What is happening? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast. Your morning pitching podcast from PitcherList.com. My name is Nick Palk, and today is June 20th. Happy Friday. And yes, we are going to talk about baseball. Off to Burke, we go.

Is what a lot of people are singing after his performance yesterday. 5.1 innings, one and run for its two walks and seven

strikeouts against the Cardinals. Oh boy, is he finally looking like his September self again?

No, he is not. This was pretty good for Seamer location outside of the first inning.

That first inning, my gosh, he even threw a 96 mile per hour fastball right down the pipe to

Nolan Aeronado, who hit it far

left field and it's caught in the morning track. But you saw Sean Burke, he put his hands up like,

oh no, right? As it happened. And he did correct himself after that. The four seamer was up after.

It wasn't at 96 plus, though. It was really 96.97 the first, and then it really got down to 93-94.

While the slider wasn't very good, the change-up wasn't very good, the curveball was flipped

into the zone enough, had a good CSW, but it wasn't really this big, oh my gosh, curveball.

And I'm still out on Schoenberg, unfortunately. You know, he also gets the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers, so that's pretty easy, right?

That's the first thing you should always look for.

Whenever you are thinking of picking these guys up, make sure it's a decent enough matchup, right?

The Diamondbacks and Dodgers are not it.

Gavin Williams, oh my gosh, what do we do?

But Nick, it was a good start.

It was six innings, zero runs, Two, it's three walks, six case. This is like the thing you've been saying. Yeah, I know. And also, he's still down at 95, not

97 on this fastball. His extension, which was seven feet, is that 6.5. That was 6.3 before. And his

sweeper, his sinker, and his curveball, they combined for 38% strikes across 42

thrown.

38% strikes.

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