 That's when it nine to two and Jack at all starts with starting pitching and it was not a good start for James Paxton Disappointing the flating start from Paxton Bob. I raised the question during the pregame Which Paxton were the Yankees going to see tonight the pitcher who struggled for parts of 2019 or the pitcher? Who was dominant for the last two months of the season they need him to be reliable? He was a wayward pitcher tonight Bob just never looked comfortable at all only face nine batters one plus innings And a lot of it is traced to the lack of velocity and command with his fastball His fastball with velocity was down about four miles. So instead of throwing 96. He's throwing 92 That's a big difference and Bob He couldn't put batters away in that fateful second inning when he ends up not even lasting that inning the last three Batters he faced he had them in the oh two or one two and the results never ended up in his favor And then that's pitchers were able to put Yankees hitters away who Jack did get some traffic on the bases But not able to catch it enough Yankees hitters one for ten with runners in scoring position They left eight men on in this nine to two win for the Nats Let's bring in our colleague John Flaherty and flash want to get some thoughts from you on what happened tonight Where the Yankees got that a whole early with Paxton on the mound? Yeah, Bob obviously Paxton's gonna be the story and the lack of velocity that Jack talked about But for me it was the lack of command with the fastball early and especially the cutter It looked like his mechanics like he was really spread out where that front side was flying open a little bit when that happens You're going to be scattering your fastball and getting around your cutter And I just thought the curveball early looked pretty good But fastball command and velocity were down and the cutter was not a good pitch for him at all So clearly he did not get off to the start that he was hoping for and you wonder if it's going to be if the Velocity is going to get better. I'm not really concerned about first start out of summer camp You expect the velocity to get better for James Paxton