It’s foolish to make too much out of one start, but take a look at that pitch plot from Michael Pineda‘s start last night. That’s pitch location broken down by strikes in the count and the yellow dots indicate where his 2-strike pitches were thrown. Unless you have some kind of color blindness, you can see that a lot of those 2-strike pitches are located in the strike zone and too many of those pitches in the strike zone are in the middle portion of it.
As I discussed in the game recap, poor 2-strike pitch location was a problem for Pineda again last night.