When two Governors made Opening Day rosters—Ryne Harper for the defending World Series champion Washington Nationals and Tyler Rogers with the San Francisco Giants—we pledged to keep track of what they were up to each week during this shortened season. Here's what the duo have been up to since we last checked in, with Harper getting back to a full workload after COVID-19 interrupted the Nats schedule the week before and Rogers earning career save No. 1.
Tyler Rogers
Tyler Rogers made three appearances, last week, and picked up his first career save on Tuesday against the Houston Astros.
Rogers picked up his fifth hold of the season in his first appearance of the week, striking out one over two perfect innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers. On the very next day, the Dodgers got back at Rogers, picking up two runs off of him in the 7th inning.
A few days later, the Giants found themselves in the 10th inning against the Astros. After a Brandon Crawford single to take the lead in the top of the inning, the Giants called on Rogers, who induced a Yuli Gurriel groundout before punching out Carlos Correa and Kyle Tucker to pick up his first career save.
After three weeks of baseball, Rogers is tied for the Major League lead in holds (5) with eight other relief pitchers.
Ryne Harper
Harper saw action in three games, last week, sandwiching a scoreless appearance in the ninth against the Orioles between… less successful outings against the Orioles and Mets.
For the week, Harper tossed 2.2 innings, striking out five and walking just one. While a trio of long balls and an equal number of doubles—his first extra-base hits surrendered this season—hurt the results for the week, the pitch efficiency remains high. Of Harper's 77 pitches thrown for the week, 53 were for strikes (68.9 percent) and 15 strikes were looking, nearly 20 percent.
As @TalkNats2 shows, Harper could very well have escaped his Wednesday outing with no damage had the strike zone been a little more forgiving.
Alas, no @PitchingNinja Gifs this week. Keep the faith, the nastiness will return.
