Jacob deGrom spoke about his rough start against the New York Yankees. deGrom gave up six earned runs, including two home runs over 6.1 innings pitched.<\/p>\n
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Jacob, there were moments tonight when you looked like yourself locked in, but I know the, the final line wasn’t what you wanted.<\/p>\n
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So what do you take away from this one?<\/p>\n
Yeah, I mean, that’s on me.<\/p>\n
You know, we go out and put up three runs in the first.<\/p>\n
I give up one in the first and then two in the second to let them tie the game, and then just wasn’t able to put up zeros and give us a chance to win.<\/p>\n
So, you know, gave up the lead, what, in the sixth and then in the seventh come out of the game with two runners on.<\/p>\n
So I have to do a better job.<\/p>\n
That’s on me.<\/p>\n
Did you feel like this was a situation of just not feeling like you had your best stuff today?<\/p>\n
Or was it just a couple pitches that you feel like you missed?<\/p>\n
I, I mean, I didn’t think my stuff was bad, just didn’t execute like I needed to.<\/p>\n
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made some mistakes over the middle and they capitalized on it.<\/p>\n
And like I said, I gotta go out there and do a better job.<\/p>\n
This was the second game where you threw your changeup a lot.<\/p>\n
You went a little bit more to your off-speed stuff.<\/p>\n
What was the intention behind that?<\/p>\n
I mean, just seeing the swings on the fastball early, you know, it looked like they were trying to hunt the fastball and tried to make the adjustment.<\/p>\n
And, you know, the homer happened to be a curve ball I left in the middle and then, that’s what tied the game.<\/p>\n
And then, you know, Jazz got to a fastball and then like, like I said in the seventh gave up the hit there to who, McMahon.<\/p>\n
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Yeah.<\/p>\n
And you know, that wasn’t actually a bad pitch.<\/p>\n
And then the bunt and then, then I was out of the game.<\/p>\n
So it’s just poor execution on my part.<\/p>\n
What do you think is, Can you pinpoint what is standing in the way of you executing how you want to?<\/p>\n
you know, I just don’t think I’m getting a fastball down enough.<\/p>\n
You know, it’s top of the zone and I think they’re able to, you know, sit up over.<\/p>\n
So I will figure that out in between.<\/p>\n
The, the home run that McMahon hit was a curve ball, right?<\/p>\n
Mm-hmm.<\/p>\n
It Like location-wise it didn’t, it wasn’t in the middle of the zone.<\/p>\n
It was up.<\/p>\n
Yeah, it just needs to be down.<\/p>\n
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Yeah.<\/p>\n
I gotta get that ball down.<\/p>\n
Okay.<\/p>\n
you know, that’s the whole thing.<\/p>\n
Everything that was hit, you know, co- Bellinger’s, up-away fastball, double off the wall.<\/p>\n
Judge was what, an up-away fastball.<\/p>\n
Nothing was- So- really where I want it, so.<\/p>\n
I, I know I’ve asked you this before, but like when you have nights where you can’t get the ball down, like is there a commonality to, to why?<\/p>\n
you know, if I knew that I’d probably try to fix it a little sooner.<\/p>\n
felt like there in what I mean, I made the mistake to Jazz, that he got to, but there in the fifth, sixth and even the start of the seventh, I felt like I was locating down more.<\/p>\n
so I was trying to make the adjustment just, you know, still making mistakes in the middle of the plate.<\/p>\n