 This pitcher for the Royals name is Cole Gatlin-Ragans and things fell apart pretty bad for him. This breakdown is brought to you by DraftKings. He gets the first out of the sixth there. He got traded to the Royals. Look at him look down at the ground after this pitch. Something's going on down there. He got traded to the Royals from the Rangers for all this Chapman earlier this year. The Royals made him a starting pitcher and he's been pitching like crazy. He looks down at the mound again after that pitch doesn't like what he's seeing there. Something's bugging him down there. He's been pitching great as a starter. Gets Bichette two outs now. That pitches outside to Vladdy. That's a nice same pitch. Got him swinging got him looking lowers it a little to get the chase doesn't get it goes back to get it looking doesn't get it and he loses them and he bends down and then he looks at the ground again and he doesn't like what's going on there. Runner on first now he's not in the wind up anymore. He's in the stretch for those that are very new to baseball. It means that he's pitching his body's already turned. He's not like turning into it. I don't know how do you describe that for I guess you just show non baseball fans what I'm talking about which I will later on. This one's fouled away the one one pitch that's a really nice slider swing and miss up top with the fastball two two pitch slider again looks down at the ground a little bit and wants that a strike three doesn't get it bends down again two runners on two outs they're like should we go talk to him. Yeah let's go talk to him he's pitched well it's a close game he's got two runners on now maybe he's getting a little tired they go chat with him they say hey whatever you do just don't fall down mid wind up and throw the ball away okay the next pitch oh no he fell down mid wind up through the ball away both runners advance what the heck happened he gets up he gives a quick thumbs up it's like I'm good just a little embarrassed but I'm good they're like are you sure you're good let's go out and he's like no I'm good turns his back to him like don't come out here so they are thinking okay let's not go out but then teammate kind of looks and is like hey maybe these guys should come out and they're thinking uh real and limbo should we go should we not go he's like I'm good I'm good I'm good don't have to come check on me you already did one mound visit we can't do a second mound visit would have to be an injury thing I'm not injured all right licking his fingers here's what happened his lead foot doesn't clear the ground it kicks up on the dirt twists up and just all sorts of messy he goes down pretty hard so it's one ball on Kirk now the very next pitch his feet aren't going to get tripped up but the pitch is way high and a run is going to score it makes it a two to one game pretty crazy they still haven't got a hit it was walk walk wild pitch wild pitch and that scores a run to cut the lead in half licks his palm of his hand there licks his fingertips he's licking all over he's just a liquor uh the green screen got broke on that pitch the next pitch foot gets stuck again that one's away the next runner comes tie game walk walk wild pitch wild pitch wild pitch after going five and two thirds scoreless things fall apart um comes out he's like are you good and they're like well this is your second mound visit and they're like yeah but it's an injury visit he kicks the dirt around he's like this is the problem this is what's messing me up and they come out and say hey well because it's a second mound visit we we have to act like maybe you're injured are you injured he's like I'm not injured I just keep I keep catching my foot on the ground I keep scraping the ground I keep falling so like well um maybe it's an injury so let's practice this and he throws when he says I'm good but it's a 3-0 count there's two outs the game is now tied the next pitch no falling but a ball and they say okay well let's just you're done now you're out I kind of wanted to figure out what was going on like why was he falling and my best guess and I'm not a pitching coach at all but just looking at footage is that when he went to the stretch and he's at 100 pitches fatigue kind of set in you can see on the right he's in the wind up where he gets to rock into his motion and he's kind of just a bit quicker and he gets his leg extended more his leg might even be coming up more because he's got that momentum that rocking into it where on the left he's in the stretch and if you don't know you do this to keep the base runners not getting huge leads he's not getting his leg as high it's not as fast I think and his foot is getting caught and maybe that's fatigue maybe that's just I don't know but you can see look how much his foot when he was in the wind up was clearing it was landing you know past his left foot where this one he's not getting it higher on the left side and it's scraping so that's my diagnosis it was a little bit of fatigue maybe the mound was messed up a little bit here the three pitches and the middle one was just a wild pitch the one that broke the green screen because his foot clears I think he's just a little cautious now like maybe he's coming down to really plant it but you can see that the book ends his heel just drags I don't think it had anything to do with the mount because it's clearly that his leg is in clearing that zone so maybe that's fatigue or your pitching leg or something but I again I'm not a pitching coach so I don't know what it is but my guess is fatigue thank you for watching this breakdown is brought to you by draft kings I appreciate them for sponsoring it and I appreciate you guys for watching it