“He was aggressive”: Chris Bassitt bounces back with an elite performance

“He was aggressive”: Chris Bassitt bounces back with an elite performance

Chris Bassitt and Mark Canha

Chris Bassitt has had one of his worst starts statistically in the past few days, he spoke to his teammate Mark Canha, who nudged him to stop pitching falteringly to hitters. The New York Mets player, Chris Bassitt even had to apologize to his catchers, Tomás Nido and Patrick Mazeika, for keeping them in a dilemma when it came to his game plans. He pored over the data on a month’s worth of mistakes. He flew back from the West Coast early to catch some extra rest and prepare for his next start against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Bassitt tried everything possible to fix what had already cursed him and his performance. Six days later, he responded with one of the finest starts of his career, delivering eight shutout innings in a 4-0 win on Tuesday evening over Milwaukee Brewers.

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“He’s a great pitcher,” Mark Canha said. “Executing is the hardest part, right? But the change in mentality is just going to help him so much.”

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Chris Bassitt proves he has his natural talent left inside of him

Chris Bassitt
Chris Bassitt

Chris Bassitt’s strike-throwing at every point in the night which was the most obvious difference. Bassitt threw more strikes in Tuesday’s victory than he had total pitches last time out in San Diego. That included first-pitch strikes to 18 of the 26 batters he faced at Citi Field.

His strike rate rose from 60 per cent to 71 per cent. “I was able to completely break down what was going on,” Bassitt said. “I just thought me and Nido were off. We weren’t on the same page at all. The more and more I fought, the worse and worse I did.”

“Today, we went a different route and it worked,” Nido added.

“You could tell early on, he was aggressive,” manager Buck Showalter said. “We’ve seen the level he’s capable of pitching at, and I know how frustrating it’s been for him here lately. But guys like him, you just trust the moxie and the want-to they have. They figure it out and they make adjustments.”

In his comeback game, Bassitt produced a 7.62 ERA over a five-start stretch from May 19 through June 8, throwing to Nido in four of those outings and Patrick Mazeika in the other. Chris Bassitt hadn’t won a game since May 8, when he bounced back.

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