The left-hander impressed his manager with both his stuff and demeanor
Prior to Wednesday night's game against the Dodgers, an excited and happy Blake Walston addressed the media. As is often the custom when players are first called up to the major leagues, they are asked a string of questions about how they found out, and what kind of reaction their family had.
Freddie Freeman came up next and worked the count full before smacking a line drive right at Christian Walker who caught it easily and stepped on first base for the unassisted double play. Perhaps with a little adrenaline pumping, Walston's fastball topped out at 94.5 before settling in between 92-93.
In the 6th, Walston showed his athleticism by fielding a comebacker from Miguel Rojas to get the first out. Chris Taylor blooped a soft line drive into left for a single . He struck out Barnes on yet another effective curveball, and then got Betts to fly out to medium center field to end the inning. With runners on first and second Walston looked like he might be tiring, as he walked Hernandez on four pitches. He struck out Pages swinging however, and it looked like he might get out of the inning. Unfortunately he lost Miguel Rojas on a 3-2 fastball that just missed nipping the corner up and away to walk in a run, thus ending his night.
"Huge congratulations to him. Controlling the emotions, being able to walk out there, slow it down, make pitches. He gave us just about four good innings of no run baseball, and allowed us on our feet and get some noise going offensively, but unfortunately that didn't happen. I thought Blake was great. Controlling those emotions going up there and repeating his delivery and pounding the zone the way he did was pretty impressive.
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