The haters stick to hate, and Joe Kelly sticks to great.
Once again, yesterday in Cincinnati, Joe Kelly posted a scoreless inning. It was the seventh inning, and it kept his team in the game, although Dave Roberts didn’t let Joe Kelly bat, which would have probably made the Dodgers win.
Even constricted to the mound, Kelly made his presence felt, winning an eight-pitch battle with Tucker Barnhart to set him down looking and inducing weak contact from Nick Senzel and Eugenio Suarez while wisely pitching around Joey Votto.
Kelly’s ERA is now a lean 7.79, and his FIP—which all the nerds use—is even better, at 4.61. He hasn’t allowed an earned run in two weeks, and, as you noticed if you watched him pump that last 99 mph fastball in to make Suarez pop out, he throws very hard.
