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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1792040" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-notebook-back-from-his-minor-tuneup-dakota-hudson-makes-major-statement/article_bbe1a709-8054-5cc8-bdcb-bfd73ae7c7d8.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold" target="_blank">Derrick Goold</a></p><p>The four-hour drive down to Memphis gave Cardinals starter Dakota Hudson plenty of necessary time for some “self talk” about how to assure his demotion to Class AAA was not a one-way trip.</p><p>“If you don’t take yourself back and think about what you’ve been doing and where you’re going, you’re never going to come back,” Hudson said. “That’s where I had to go and have that mental talk with myself and say, ‘Hey, is this what we’re going to do? How do I get, personally, to my best?’”</p><p>His return to the Cardinals on Saturday headed him in the right direction.</p><p>With a career-best eight innings and a swift, peppy pace to his performance in Game 1 of the doubleheader, Hudson threw himself into the mix for starts and a potential postseason role. After two starts for the Triple-A Redbirds, Hudson (8-7) resurfaced in the majors with the start the Cardinals had been looking for so often this season. Hudson was able to blend his sinker and four-seam fastball, get quick outs, and held Cincinnati to one unearned run in the Cardinals’ 5-1 victory.</p><p></p><p>He was efficient, without the prolonged pauses.</p><p>Hudson completed six shutout innings on 80 pitches.</p><p>“What we’ve been waiting for,” manager Oliver Marmol said. “Legit outing.”</p><p>In his first full season since elbow reconstructive surgery, Hudson struggled with consistency, the pitches he could count on from start to start, and tempo. The rinse cycle through Memphis helped address them all. He had little choice. The pitch clock that’s coming to the majors in 2023 is already counting down in the minors, requiring pitchers to deliver a pitch within 14 seconds of receiving it with no runners on base. A violation gives the hitter a ball.</p><p>Hudson felt the tick-tock of the clock and adjusted how he received the ball from the catcher to expedite his process. He consciously tried to recreate that sensation Saturday to maintain the swift pace demanded of him at Triple-A. In his previous major-league starts, Hudson averaged 16.4 seconds between pitches — one of the slowest paces in the majors — and on Saturday he averaged 12.03 seconds. With runners on base he also was five seconds faster, according to research by Post-Dispatch digital baseball producer Carter Chapley.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1792040, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-notebook-back-from-his-minor-tuneup-dakota-hudson-makes-major-statement/article_bbe1a709-8054-5cc8-bdcb-bfd73ae7c7d8.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold']Derrick Goold[/URL] The four-hour drive down to Memphis gave Cardinals starter Dakota Hudson plenty of necessary time for some “self talk” about how to assure his demotion to Class AAA was not a one-way trip. “If you don’t take yourself back and think about what you’ve been doing and where you’re going, you’re never going to come back,” Hudson said. “That’s where I had to go and have that mental talk with myself and say, ‘Hey, is this what we’re going to do? How do I get, personally, to my best?’” His return to the Cardinals on Saturday headed him in the right direction. With a career-best eight innings and a swift, peppy pace to his performance in Game 1 of the doubleheader, Hudson threw himself into the mix for starts and a potential postseason role. After two starts for the Triple-A Redbirds, Hudson (8-7) resurfaced in the majors with the start the Cardinals had been looking for so often this season. Hudson was able to blend his sinker and four-seam fastball, get quick outs, and held Cincinnati to one unearned run in the Cardinals’ 5-1 victory. He was efficient, without the prolonged pauses. Hudson completed six shutout innings on 80 pitches. “What we’ve been waiting for,” manager Oliver Marmol said. “Legit outing.” In his first full season since elbow reconstructive surgery, Hudson struggled with consistency, the pitches he could count on from start to start, and tempo. The rinse cycle through Memphis helped address them all. He had little choice. The pitch clock that’s coming to the majors in 2023 is already counting down in the minors, requiring pitchers to deliver a pitch within 14 seconds of receiving it with no runners on base. A violation gives the hitter a ball. Hudson felt the tick-tock of the clock and adjusted how he received the ball from the catcher to expedite his process. He consciously tried to recreate that sensation Saturday to maintain the swift pace demanded of him at Triple-A. In his previous major-league starts, Hudson averaged 16.4 seconds between pitches — one of the slowest paces in the majors — and on Saturday he averaged 12.03 seconds. With runners on base he also was five seconds faster, according to research by Post-Dispatch digital baseball producer Carter Chapley. [/QUOTE]
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