Brandon Woodruff is not yet in his 100 percent but he did show what he is capable of in Milwaukee Brewers’ grind-it-out win over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday.
He was in the zone in the first five innings by keeping their visitors without a run when retired 14 batters in a row while his batters did their job.
Brewers sat on a comfortable 5-0 lead heading into the sixth but that’s the time the Diamondbacks saw some cracks in his throws and Arizona managed to make five runs in just 12 pitches.
It might be fatigue or getting used to since he was out for action for too long. Woodruff said post game that he was ready to throw some more before he was replaced by Aaron Ashby.
“I was locked into the game and I wanted to get through that inning,” he told reporters after the game.
“My body was feeling good and I felt like I was throwing the ball well.”
Brandon Woodruff said Pat Murphy did not want to take him out
Woodruff surrendered five to the Diamondbacks in the sixth inning and him getting replaced might be the right move.
That’s not the case though. Manager Pat Murphy was only forced to get him back to the dug out because of one rule. MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy wrote:
“Pitching coach Chris Hook had already visited the mound earlier in that long inning, so Murphy was required to make a change.”
Woodruff called that moment weird and said that Murphy apologized to him for the confusion.
“We had to pause and take a little time out and realize that was the second visit of the inning, I can’t keep going. Murph apologized, which he didn’t need to. Just a weird inning overall.”
Good thing for them, Ashby, together with Nick Mears and Abner Uribe closed this one out. It helped, too, that Caleb Durbin hit a run at bottom of the eighth inning to give them some breathing room.
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