Luis Castillo set a document for the Seattle Mariners franchise just after generating his initial a few starts off.
The Dominican pitcher labored on Monday August 15 for 6 innings at Angel Stadium versus the Los Angeles Angels.
“The Stone” took the pitch duel against Shohei Ohtani, creating his 3rd high-quality get started since arriving in Seattle from the Cincinnati Reds ahead of the professional deadline.
Castillo, 29, threw up to 109 pitches and 73 of them were being in the strike zone, providing nine strikeouts and 1 march to the California team’s hitters. Ohtani was one particular of the Angels gamers who endured the guillotine for the previous Scarlett pitcher.
The Dominican conceded just six hits and two factors in his third appearance with the Mariners. With this robust functionality versus the Angels, Luis Castillo lowered his Period to 2.73.
In his first two commences, the Baní native recorded 8 strikeouts and seven strikeouts versus the New York Yankees (Wednesday 3 August and Tuesday 9 August).
Luis Castillo has 24 strikeouts in 3 commences with the Mariners
Castillo experienced his biggest strikeout outing for the Mariners versus the Angels, racking up 24 strikeouts and top the pitcher with the most strikeouts in his first 3 commences with Seattle.
Chris Bosio and Felix Hernandez they had 21 strikeouts in 1993 and 2005 respectively. For his portion, Gaylord Perry set 23 hitters through the guillotine in 1982.
Optimum selection of strikeouts in the initial 3 matches with Mariners:
2022 Luis Castillo: 24
1982 Gaylord Perry: 23
2005 Félix Hernandez: 21
1993 Chris Bosio: 21
Luis Castillo is nevertheless approaching 1000 strikeouts
Luigi castle scored 114 strikeouts in the 2022 year in the uniform of the Cincinnati Reds and Seattle Mariners. “La Piedra” is only 125 strikeouts from hitting 1,000 in his Significant League profession.
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