On Sunday, MVP candidate Matt Carpenter dug into the box against Cy Young candidate Max Scherzer at 1:06 p.m. ET. Scherzer threw the first pitch of the game, a curveball at 77 mph.
So, to answer a question:
@SamMillerBB Sam this is random but it seems like something you may have noticed or thought about. Has there been a single baseball game this year or in the last few that the pitcher has started with something other than a fastball?
Yes.
But it's an interesting question that turns out to have -- thanks in part to Scherzer, and that hook he threw to Carpenter -- an interesting answer.