 The Mets are up, two runs on the Marlins in this game. It's the bottom of the ninth, so cue the trumpets because Edwin Diaz is coming in. He strikes out 52% of the batters he faces this year and this is a dominant performance from him. Steps in, looks at the catcher, hitter. Okay, I can do this, I can do this. No, you can't, they go, the three finger wiggle. So that's a slider and he throws that one nice little, like slight slide swings over, it was in the zone. Now they're gonna go outside fastball, doesn't quite get it outside because it's just too electric. Up and in the middle, fouled back. O2, they're gonna go back to the outside slider and that one has a real nice sweeping movement. That's out number one, strike, strike, strike. Next batter is a righty. So how do they attack him? Well, they're gonna go three finger wiggle, that's the slider. Now this slider is a little different than the others because it's got no sweep. It's really like just a spinning changeup. It doesn't do much, then fastball up top 100, top of the zone, back to the outside is my favorite pitch of the sequence and that is just like a slider. Again, not crazy movement, but just dotted and less. Oh, sit the fuck down. Here are these two at bats side by side in the first one he was facing a righty and the next one he was facing a lefty. It didn't matter, he used the exact same sequence on both. Open them up outside slider, then on the O1 pitch came up high with the fastball. They got the swing and miss, then went back to the outside slider. Pretty cool, pretty exactly what he wanted to do. Here's both hitters on either sides of the plate, both pitches. Sliders to the far sides of the plate, fastball up to the middle and then slider far sides of the plate. But do you see the difference in the sliders? Like the one he threw to the righty sweeps away, the one he threw to the lefty is just kind of, like a changeup that doesn't move. I wonder how much he can control that or not control that or if it just, whatever happens, happens. Now he throws the fastball where he wants to throw the fastball and he gets a swing and a miss. It's kind of an ugly swing from Joey Wendell, but that's where he wants to throw that inside fastball. That's a tough pitch. So he goes back to it right away and gets the called strike, got the swing strike. Now for the immaculate inning, oh, it's fouled off and he knows that he's smiling. It was almost nine pitches, nine strikes, three strikeouts, but Joey Wendell fouls that one off. Oh my goodness, oh my God. O2, they're gonna go back to the slider and get some absolutely dominant performance by Edmund D. He's been doing it all year. But I do like how easy he made it, how dotted those pitches were, how the slider kind of swept when he needed it to and did it. And I like that he knew about the immaculate inning and then laughed about it and got it right at the end. So good shit by Edwin Diaz, just mowing down the Marlins. And if you got some pubes you need to mow down, then head to Manscaped, use discount code johnboy20. For 20% off you can get the lawn mower 4.0, electric trimmer, it's a Bush's worst nightmare. It's like a Marlins worst nightmare, as Edwin Diaz in the ninth with control. I do think that the Joey Wendellot bat at the end is where he actually put it together and threw all the pitches where he wanted to throw it. Like that's where he wants to throw out fastball. It's where he wants to throw out fastball. This is where he wants to throw that slider under the zone and this one is the perfect pitch. Good job by Edwin Diaz, absolutely electric.