On Sunday, Brayan Bello turned in his best performance of the season. He threw seven innings of shutout baseball against the Yankees, one of the top offenses in the league. In his prior start, he held the Rays to three runs over 6 1⁄3 innings.
In his start against the Rays, he used a sweeper-heavy approach. He’s featured his sweeper frequently this season, but facing he Tampa used the breaking ball as his primary pitch against lefties. I wasn’t buying that new approach as a source of long-term success. Big, horizontal breaking balls don’t typically play well against the opposite-handed hitters.