Pineiro completely dominates Mets

Perhaps it's not fair to call Joel Pineiro a one-trick pony. After all, he did have two hits on Tuesday night. But on the mound it was all about one pitch for Pineiro in a 3-0 win over the Mets. The right-hander incessantly pounded the strike zone with his sinking fastball, inducing 22 ground-ball outs en route to his second shutout of the season and the fifth of his Major League career. He needed a mere 100 pitches to record 27 outs, and he held the Mets to two hits. Of those 100 pitches, 77 were fastballs -- and Pineiro estimated that all but three of those were of the sinking, two-seam variety.

So nearly three-quarters of Pineiro's total offerings in a complete game were the same pitch. In order to do that, and not get hit all over the field, that one pitch had to be dynamite. On Tuesday, it assuredly was.

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