Lauding the lefthander's season-long consistency, Astros manager Dusty Baker says: 'He gets big outs. He makes big pitches.'
With six career postseason victories to his credit, Framber Valdez could break a tie with Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez for most by a Dominican when he takes the mound Saturday night in World Series Game 6.By technical standards, Framber Valdez has no chance of being classified a 20-game winner in 2022. The lefthander was 17-9 in a season that saw him become one of the American League's preeminent pitchers.
Valdez limited Philadelphia to a run, four hits and three walks in 6 1/3 innings as the Astros posted a 5-2 victory in Game 2 to even the series. Now he becomes Houston's first man to pitch with a series lead on the Phillies, who were befuddled by Cristian Javier, Justin Verlander and a nonpareil bullpen in dropping Games 4 and 5 at Citizens Bank Park,"Definitely helps a lot," the lefthander said Thursday night after the Astros assumed a 3-2 series lead.
"This guy has been as consistent as any pitcher that I've ever had throughout the course of the year, and he just continued to do the same thing during the playoffs," Dusty Baker, who is nearing the end of his 25th season as a major league manager, said after Game 2."He gets big outs. He makes big pitches."
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