Keegan Thompson spun a pitch that wound up bouncing to the dirt in the left-handed batter's box in the sixth inning on Tuesday night at Wrigley Field.
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Still, it looked tempting enough out of the hand to entice a swing from Kyle Farmer, eluding the end of his bat by roughly a foot.
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It was another look at Thompson's latest weapon -- a new sweeping slider.
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"It's just something that guys haven't seen yet," Thompson said this past weekend. "I'm always trying to work on some things.
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I threw it a couple times in my last couple starts, but I'm still trying to get a feel for it.
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In a 5-3 loss to the Reds, Thompson logged a career-high 6 1/3 innings and added eight strikeouts against no walks.
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He was charged with four runs, but it was another step in the pitcher's development
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“Some really bad swings on that,” Cubs manager David Ross said. “For me, his fastball has set up everything.
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He throws so many early on that when those guys see fastball out of hand, that same direction
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Moskos said Thompson loves using the advanced pitch data during his bullpen work to see if what he sees and feels on the mound aligns with the numbers.