Dallas Keuchel is one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball when he’s on his game, and no one has a better idea of how good he can be than Houston Astros catcher Martin Maldonado.
With Keuchel scheduled to pitch in Houston’s series finale against the Boston Red Sox on Sunday, Maldonado tried to illustrate just how much movement Keuchel has on his pitches. He summed it up perfectly.
Dallas Keuchel, who starts for the Astros tonight on Sunday Night Baseball against the Red Sox, has so much movement on his fastball and changeup that Martin Maldonado told him that it's easier to hit against Keuchel than it is to catch him.
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) September 9, 2018
Hitting against Keuchel can be an impossible task, so we can only imagine how tough it must be to catch every one of his pitches.
Keuchel was struggling a bit earlier in the season, but he has seemingly identified the problem and addressed it. The left-hander has lowered his ERA from 4.22 on June 27 to 3.46 heading into Sunday.
