Clay Holmes has seen at Citi Area that the winds can swirl at discipline stage, by no means extra so for him than Sunday afternoon, when it was significantly swooshing his staple sinker.
Not far in Holmes’ previous, he would have bulled ahead. He, in spite of everything, was employed one inning at a time. And he primarily threw that one pitch as a reliever — his sinker.
However in opposition to the Cardinals, Holmes caught round for six innings and 91 pitches — each highs for his 5 Mets begins — as a result of, in Carlos Mendoza’s phrases, “he really had to pitch … he had to use all of his weapons.” So he hurled four-seamers and sweepers, cutters and changeups — tons and plenty of changeups, a pitch he actually created in a laboratory within the offseason. “It really made me feel like a pitcher,” Holmes mentioned.
The emphasis must be on beginning pitcher.
