![]() “At 65-70kph … you’ll do anything and everything to keep yourself from going down. “That’s the skills of not just professional cyclists but sprinters,” former sprinter Robbie McEwen said of Cavendish’s crash on Eurosport’s post-race show The Breakaway. He was later promoted to fourth after Dainese was relegated for causing the crash. Still just about holding onto his bike, Cavendish slid across the line in fifth place behind stage winner Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck). The Manx rider, 37, was sent veering to his right, into a rider from Green Project-Bardiani over on the barriers, and then back the other way, flying off his bike Superman-style. I checked, just trust me.Mark Cavendish was involved in a spectacular crash at the finish to a rain-sodden fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia, which also featured race favourite Remco Evenepoel falling twice, the first time after a stray dog ran out into the road.Ĭavendish, wearing the British road champion’s jersey, was praised for his “smooth” landing skills after his front wheel was clipped at high speed by the Italian Alberto Dainese (DSM) in the sprint at the end of the stage to Salerno. With the win, the Guardians have a chance tomorrow to win back-to-back series for the first time since 1987. Regardless, you don’t have a good season/career without cracking a few bad pitches, and Rosario and he absolutely crushed some tonight - all four of his hits were over 97 mph. The Tigers’ plan of “throw him a bunch of fastballs over the middle of the plate” seems bad to me, but he also hit one of the four sliders they attacked him with - not coincidentally, it was also a pitch hit over the middle of the plate. The other story outside of Bieber is, of course, Amed Rosario. But the Tigers couldn’t hit, (most of) the Guards couldn’t hit, and the game ended way tighter than it needed to. James Karinchak was walked two straight but thankfully was given a clean inning to work with and - with the help of Sam Hentges - got out unscathed. The offense was once again shut down by a guy that shouldn’t have shut them down. Outside of Bieber’s performance one impressive Myles Straw catch, there uh, wasn’t much else to this game if we’re being honest. ![]() Shane Bieber, Filthy 82mph Knuckle Curve. Some were right along the bottom of the zone, some were buried in the dirt, all were missed.Īnd here’s one particularly nasty one caught by Pitching Ninja that made a man buckle so hard his legs turned into Tommy Pickles. He also threw in 11 changeups and 10 of his patented knuckle curves, the latter of which induced five swings and each one was a whiff. They wouldn’t get any more scoring until the bottom of the eighth, but luckily they didn’t need it with how Shane Bieber utterly dominated the Tigers.īieber finished the day with a game-high 19 whiffs, leaning heavily into his slider (31 times), cutter (26), and four-seamer (23) to get the job done. ![]() They did it again tonight, starting the game with back-to-back hits from Steven Kwan and Amed Rosario, capped off by a sacrifice fly from José Ramírez and two easy outs from Josh’s Bell and Naylor. Not a lot, and not very often, but dangit they’ll get some hits there. Say what you want about the Cleveland Guardians offense, but they know how to score in the first inning. ![]()
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