The Red Sox-Yankees game on Sunday afternoon provided a textbook example of how two pitchers can stand on the same mound and do the same job in entirely different ways.
If Red Sox starter Ranger Suarez broke a sweat on an 81-degree day at Yankee Stadium, it wasn’t evident. He flipped pitches to the plate with seemingly the same effort as dealing a hand of cards.
Suarez’s fastest pitch was a 92.9-mile-per-hour fastball to Trent Grisham in the fourth inning. In all, only eight of his 90 pitches broke 92. Suarez changed angles and speeds like he had a joystick in his glove.
Yankees starter Cam Schlittler threw 83 of his 92 pitches with greater velocity than Suarez’s fastest. Outside of seven curveballs, everything was some variation of a fastball. The 25-year-old righthander from Walpole pitched with ferocity, Suarez with finesse.
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