BOSTON — Tyler Anderson hasn’t started his Angels career the way he’d like.
The left-hander has a 6.75 ERA in his first three starts, and that includes six scoreless innings in his debut against the Oakland A’s. Since then, Anderson has allowed 11 runs in 8-2/3 innings.
And he said the problem has been the same in each of the last two starts.
“I just feel like I don’t have a good feel for my mechanics right now,” Anderson said on Sunday, a day after he gave up six runs in four innings to the Boston Red Sox. “The nice thing is, you know when it clicks it can just feel right. I’ve just had a hard time finding that feel. When that happens, you’re out there trying to compete but without really knowing where the ball is going to go.”
Anderson’s fastball barely cracks 90 mph, so he relies on his control and keeping hitters off balance with his off-speed pitches, particularly a changeup that he improved in his All-Star season with the Dodgers last year.
In his first three starts, though, he’s been out of the strike zone too much.
“It’s hard pitching when it’s 2-0, 1-0, 2-1 and then you’re just throwing a fastball away,” Anderson said. “If I were going to hit, that’s what I’d want.”
On Saturday, Anderson was handed a 4-0 lead on Gio Urshela’s grand slam before he threw his first pitch. He then walked the first hitter he faced in the bottom of the inning.
“We score four runs in the first and my job is to put up a zero here,” Anderson said. “Go out, attack the first guy. I walked the first guy with full intent of like, ‘I’m gonna attack and get strike one, get the first guy out, make him hit the ball. I’m gonna go out and be aggressive.’ That was the intention. Didn’t work out that way.”
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Right-hander Ryan Tepera was placed on the injured list with shoulder inflammation, but he said was relieved that it doesn’t seem to be that serious.
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