Luis Castillo was fine.
Luis Castillo is a genuine ace and in his first three starts, he showed us why he was worth trading a hefty package of prospects. And Luis Castillo is still the guy who outpitched Gerrit Cole twice and then Shohei Ohtani. He just wasn’t that sharp today. As Ryan Rowland-Smith put it, Castillo simply never got settled. But he did collect multiple whiffs on each of his four pitches, totalling 13 swings-and-misses over just 86 pitches along with another 11 called strikes. And striking out five while walking just one over five innings pitched is not what you want when your ace faces the A’s, but it’s a good line! Castillo had plenty of moments where he looked the way you…
