“It feels good”: Tony Gonsolin becomes first National League pitcher to 8-0 wins this season

“It feels good”: Tony Gonsolin becomes first National League pitcher to 8-0 wins this season

Tony Gonsolin

With only 12 starts this 2022 season for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tony Gonsolin has thrived to be the dominant player in the team’s rotation. He continued the commanding start to the season, striking out six and allowing just one hit over 6 1/3 scoreless innings in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 2-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.

The right-handed pitcher polished up to 8-0 this season and his 1.42 ERA is the lowest in the Major League among qualified starters. Tony Gonsolin has not only given the Dodgers a chance to win, but the impressive right-hand pitcher has proved to be the heavyweight on the mound when Los Angeles is hopelessly looking for a much necessary win.

A wrestling Los Angeles Dodgers offence did just what was sufficient on Tuesday as Justin Turner drew a two-out bases-loaded walk in the fourth inning to break the scoreless tie. In the eighth, Mookie Betts snapped his 2-for-34 cold spell with a solo homer, his 17th of the season.

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MLB’s best ERA, Tony Gonsolin sinks it down to 1.42

Tony Gonsolin
Tony Gonsolin

“It feels good,” Tony Gonsolin expressed when asked about the ERA. “I know I’ve struggled in years past to go deeper into games and even qualify for a win, so it feels good knowing that I’m getting deeper into games and giving us a chance to win.”

“Fastball was really good today,” Gonsolin said. “I kind of felt it in the bullpen pregame, I felt like it had some life. Today was great. Splitter started coming around a little bit, executed it when I needed to. Slider came around a lot. The curveball was solid. But overall, fastball felt good.”

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Before Tuesday’s game, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was open about the team needing to play with insistence this week. The Giants, who swept the Dodgers over the weekend, came in just three games back.

“I just think he has real confidence,” Dave Roberts said. “To have that, to develop that, it takes time and it takes consistent performance. Right now, this is as confident as he’s been in his own abilities and he’s scratching the surface on some really good things moving forward.”

If the Dodgers absorbed anything last season, it was the importance of winning the division and avoiding the Wild Card Series, which has a best-of-three format this season.

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