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Doc Gooden, along with others, help calm the Astros-Jose Altuve storm

Analyze the following quote and observation from a long-time and high-ranking baseball scout, and take it from there:

“I was sitting behind home plate when Jose Altuve hit the game-winning home run off Aroldis Chapman. The irony is that Chapman had no command of his fastball that inning. He couldn’t throw it in the ocean. He was throwing mostly all sliders, the only pitch that he could throw for a strike. Altuve just missed the slider on the first pitch of the at-bat. The pitch that Jose hit for the home run was a center-cut slider, right down Broadway.