Daily News | Phillies prospect Mick Abel is learning how to pitch through adversity
farm director Preston Mattingly has watched Mick Abel pitch since he was a sophomore in high school, but he’d never seen him pitch as well as he did with double-A Reading through four innings on Friday. It wasn’t just that the Phillies prospect’s stuff looked sharp. It was that he was getting ahead in counts. He was on the attack.
Then came the fifth. Abel abruptly lost his command. He walked the first two batters he faced, then allowed a single and another walk. He threw only four strikes in those four at-bats. He induced a fly out, allowed a sacrifice fly, a single, another walk, and a two-run double before he exited the inning. Abel’s final line: six earned runs on six hits in 4⅔ innings with nine strikeouts and four walks.Some of this was bad luck. But most of it was an inability to make quick, in-game adjustments.
“A couple of outings ago, when I gave up nine runs, I was trying to make pitches that I shouldn’t have been throwing,” Abel said. “I was trying to be perfect on every single pitch. I think on the outings aside from that I’ve done a good job of recognizing the outings when I am trying to be perfect. And getting back to who I am.”
“I think I’ve had times in pro ball where I’ll be out there trying to get a bounce-back outing down and the thought comes back in my head,” said Abel, who has a 5.45 ERA in eight starts at Reading. “Can’t let this be like my last outing. It has happened.
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