Jose Urquidy seems to be at his best when his team is in a hole in the World Series. The Houston Astros starter notched another series-tying win in Game 2 of the 2021 Fall Classic against the Atlanta Braves. ArdenZwelling | TD_Canada
An Eddie Rosario throwing error in the middle of it all didn’t help. Neither did a two-out, two-strike curveball Fried left a little too high on the plate later in the inning to Michael Brantley, who came up with a single of his own at the end of a patient plate appearance.
This being the World Series, no one would have been shocked to see Braves manager Brian Snitker get an itchy trigger finger and yank his starter before a rough outing spiralled into a disastrous one. But this was a clear case of results not reflecting process. Fried was varying his pitches well, staying off the heart of the plate, and getting weak contact. The Astros were just finding holes.
It’s certainly worth noting that Snitker desperately needed his starter to pitch deep into Game 2, after he asked his bullpen to get 20 outs a night earlier when Charlie Morton left his start in the third inning. But the way Fried was pitching had to make it easier to stick with him. And naturally Fried responded by retiring 10 straight after Brantley’s second-inning single.
Incredibly, Fried pitched deeper into the game than Urquidy, taking the mound for the beginning of the sixth inning. But a Yordan Alvarez walk and Carlos Correa single finally got Snitker up and out of the dugout, ending an 86-pitch outing in which Fried deserved better than his line in the box score would suggest.
Javier’s typically very good. But on Wednesday, his slider was unfair. Javier threw it 15 times in a 27-pitch outing, earning five swinging strikes. He struck out Austin Riley with it. He popped up Adam Duvall with it. And he got d’Arnaud to chase one that ended up nowhere close to the plate.
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