An Asdrubal Cabrera Story in Three Pictures
The Nationals lost, so, bummer for them. Asdrubal Cabrera homered, so, that’s kind of neat. He homered against Hunter Strickland, who threw this fastball in the high-away quadrant:
Batting lefty, Cabrera pulled the dinger down the line:
Using the interactive spray chart tool, here is where lefty hitters this season hit 97+ mph fastballs up and over the outer half:
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Asdrubal Cabrera was thinking fastball, probably.
Jeff made Lookout Landing a thing, but he does not still write there about the Mariners. He does write here, sometimes about the Mariners, but usually not.
And people said Asdrubal Cabrera wasn’t very good. Look who’s laughing now! (I realize you can’t actually see me laughing, but rest assured, I am.