Sabathia Struggles in Second Start

Because of the small sample size, there tends to be a lot of overreacting in spring training. When a surprise player hits .700 through 10 games, he is anointed a future star. When an ace like Sabathia struggles in early March, worries abound. Usually, things even out.
In his second start of this spring, on Tuesday against Pittsburgh,NBA Snapback Hats Sale, the Pirates pounded Sabathia for seven runs and seven hits in two and a third innings. The first four batters reached base, a rally capped by Garrett Jones’s mammoth home run into the picnic tables in right field. He rebounded to retire the side in the second and the first batter in the third. But after allowing the next three batters to reach base (double, single, walk), Sabathia had apparently reached his pitch count and was taken out.
Sabathia said after his last start, Thursday against the Phillies, that he needed some time to hone his mechanics and regain the feel for some of his pitches. As we saw last year, a rocky start in Lakeland (or Tampa) does not portend bad luck once the season starts. Sabathia, after all, had a 3.37 earned run average and tied for the major league lead with 19 wins.
TAMPA, Fla. – In his second start last spring, the Tigers hammered C.C. Sabathia for five runs and six hits in one and two-thirds innings. It was a spring training game, so he did not think the results,Washington on Benson, however poor, would be a big deal. The next day, one headline on the Internet read,Cartier Sunglasses, “Sabathia Already Has Fat in Fire.”
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