Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Philip Humber accepts his bad day outing – MLB News
The Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Philip Humber is currently in media limelight with his perfect and somewhat not perfect pitching.
First, some five days ago, he happened to be the 21th Major Leaguer in the history of American baseball to throw a Perfect Game which earned him the world-wide recognition.
However, later when people saw his five run lame pitching against the Boston Red Sox, the world again took notice, but this time with slight criticism over Humber’s wavered deliveries.
The game was also won by the Red Sox 10-3, thanks to Humber, who cam-out on the mound with sheer confidence to throw yet again a Perfecto, but awfully failed to do the magic.
Later in the press conference, where many media personals were gathered to take answers from Humber on his this particular bad outing, Humber explained in detail.
Humber said, “Obviously a lot of their guys in the line-up are hot right now, I didn’t pitch well tonight. They did a good job of hitting bad pitches. Definitely not my best day, for sure, I got a lot of pitches up and over the plate. To a team like that, they make you pay for it. I fell behind in the count quite a bit. it was just a bad job of executing, more than anything. We paid for it."
He added, "Some-times you get lucky, you throw a pitch over the middle of the plate and they hit it at somebody.”
The number of runs Humber allowed was most in his career including the three particular home runs.
Philip Humber, a six year veteran, with career 4.16 ERA along with 12-11 win-loss record, is a tremendous pitcher, but this was the worst performance of his career that was started back in 2006 from the New York Mets platform.
However, some experts, who grade his pitching on the current numbers base, are still agree that one bad day does not mean anything to a world class pitcher like Humber and also which can bring down any pitcher’s calibre to an extend where his skills no more counts in any team’s overall results.
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