The 19-year-old Rule 5 pick reliever had stretches where he struggled with his command. (ArdenZwelling )
Extreme variance. Luciano’s arm is electric, and he can generate some awkward swings when he’s locating his fastball at 95 m.p.h. and playing his slider off of it. But his command can come and go from pitch-to-pitch, which is how you end up with a pitch chart looking like this:
That changed in the fifth after Freddy Galvis took Carrasco deep on a 1-1 slider for his second homer in as many days. Teoscar Hernandez ripped a single into right four pitches later and came around to score on a Randal Grichuk double to the wall in left-centre. But the inning ended with Rowdy Tellez taking a fastball for strike three, giving Carrasco his third called strikeout of the inning.
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