First lets start with the positive, Triston McKenzie threw 52 pitches in a Major League Baseball game yesterday. Regardless of the result this is reason for optimism about McKenzie’s ability to come back from the myriad of arm problems he’s had this year as well as the likelihood that he will be able to avoid Tommy John surgery this offseason.
Now for the negative. Of the 52 pitches Triston threw yesterday only 19 crossed the plate for a strike. McKenzie’s final tally on the day was 1.2 innings pitched, 1H, 3ER. 6BB!, 0K. This is certainly not the kind of start we were hoping for out of him but as I said earlier the mere fact that he was out there at all with anything even resembling his normal velocity on the mound is massively encouraging.