![]() They produced an average exit velocity of 95.8 mph on Scherzer’s heater. Without the usual zip on his fastball, the Tigers feasted on the pitch. The decline in velocity and spin only invited the potential for even more of it. Given the context of Scherzer’s suspension, he already faced added scrutiny. The easiest and only legal way known to add RPMs to a pitch is to throw it harder. That matters spin and velocity have a dependent relationship to each other. One standard deviation in drop for spin/velo is 1.1, and Scherzer checked in at 1.8. However, his ratio of velocity to spin also saw a sizable change. Scherzer showed his biggest game-to-game drop in fastball spin (2,483 RPM to 2,307 RPM) during the Statcast era, though he has experienced single games like this in the past. Scherzer’s average fastball velocity dipped to 92.7 mph, down from his preferred zone of 94 mph. The final line looked ugly: 3 1/3 innings, six earned runs, six hits, one walk, three strikeouts. Nothing about Scherzer’s latest outing resembled a Scherzer-like game. By the time he reached the dugout, more than just time seemed to separate him from those days.īecause these days, Scherzer, 38, is struggling. ![]() As he walked off the field, the Detroit fans politely clapped for those five brilliant years Scherzer spent in a Tigers uniform. ![]() Awaiting the handoff, Scherzer just held a gaze. With one out and two runners on, Showalter took the ball from Scherzer without uttering a word. The Mets' streak of 25 consecutive doubleheaders without being swept comes to an end. Tigers 8, Mets 1: Max Scherzer allowed eight hits, one walk and six earned runs in 3 1/3 innings against one of baseball's worst offenses. “He’s going to get better,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said. *This blog entry was lightly edited & expanded on October 22nd, 2019.Scherzer’s velocity dipped, his spin rate dropped, and he failed to make it through the fourth inning of an 8-1 loss to the Tigers - one of baseball’s worst offenses. It should be considered an effective listening sample for students. Additionally, the song begins with an interesting recording feature, as the song is recorded first in mono, during the first expression of the first verse, and upon arriving at the second expression of the first verse, the recording changes to stereo, giving the listener a feeling of the bottom falling out. While the subject matter is bizarre (a hallmark of 1990s alternative music), it should not cause any issues when initially presented to a middle or high school class. The change from minor to major represents the assumed anxiety of the couple's children, searching for them, and the adventures the couple had, as described in the song's lyrics.Ĭonsiderations for Teaching: This song contains no particularly offensive material or profanity. Fastball's bassist Tony Scalzo, who penned the song, describes it as a “romanticized take on what happened” to the couple. This transition back and forth between minor and major may reflect the subject matter of the song, which is based on the story of a retired Texas couple who traveled together, despite each of them suffering from serious neurological issues, and ended up dead in Arkansas. The exact time of the harmonic shifts in the song is not the same as is heard on the album recording, because at least two of these changes were preceded by dramatic pauses in the music video. The same shift back to A major occurs upon each repetition of the chorus (at 2:28 and 3:22), although the song ends in F# major (on the F# minor or i chord). Each chorus ends on a C#7 chord (reinforced by the vocals singing “todaaaaaaaay”), which is the dominant seventh of F# minor, and the song resolves back into F# minor in the next verse (at 1:58, before the bridge at 3:03, and at the start of the outro at 4:11). The final chord of the verses, after the vocals finish, is an E major chord, serving as a transition chord (V of A major), leading into the modulation in the chorus (at 1:22 here), where the song spends a good deal of time in A major. The song begins in F# minor (relative to A major). ![]() The song was also nominated for two Grammys, a feat that has not been repeated by the band from Austin, who still records and tours.Īnalysis: This song follows a classic minor-to-major structure, in that the verses appear in a minor mode, with the chorus sounding in the parallel major. Intro: In essence a one-hit-wonder band, Fastball topped the Billboard Hot Modern Rock tracks chart with this song for seven weeks in a row in 1998, also topping the Canadian singles chart and making an appearance on the UK singles chart.
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