Brad gets his shot.
First, heads-up for new people: Gerry
interviewed Mills in 2008. Read! Mills talks about his delivery and
being an engineer on a college baseball team, among other things.
Mills made two starts in the majors last year. Home runs killed him. That was uncharacteristic of him - he has a 1.5% HR rate in the minors, 2.1% in Las Vegas. Last year he threw a total of 7.2 big-league innings, all against the Phillies. In those 7.2 innings, Philadelphia struck out 9 times, walked 6, and put 23 balls in play. Four were grounders. Four were homers. None were infield flies. Figure Baltimore is probably going to be patient and swing for the moon tonight. Easier said than done for a team that ranks 14th in the AL in walks and 11th in slugging, of course.
Here are Mills' splits from those two games by ball-strike count. He actually got hit hardest when he was ahead in the count.
Anyway, that's history. Baltimore isn't Philly, and this isn't Mills' first time. As long as he can hold Wieters under three homers he's got a great chance to do well.
Jeremy Guthrie starts for the Generals against Mills. Jays -145, first pitch 7:07.
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