If your a nationals fan you know the name, but he been under the radar all season. As the only player to make the all-star game from our team last year (where he ended up getting the in in relief) he has been essentially playing in stealth mode. With the Bryce Haprer's and Stephen Strasburg's flying around and blowing up the headlines not a lot has been said of Mr. Clip.
15.1 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 5 BB, 20 K
Those would be Tyler's numbers throughout the most grueling portion of our season in the hardest pitching spot in baseball. Yes your reading that right as our closer he has given up just two hits and just seven base-runners in the hardest 46 outs of the last month. He has a 4-1 SO to walk ratio and is striking hitters out at an insane 11.7 SO per 9 IP rate. Of the 18 wins in that stretch he recorded the final out in 12. To put just his saves in perspective, his 7 saves during Interleague play was matched by only the Yankees Soriano for the most in all of baseball.
His stunning performance has lead to just a couple questions for me is he going to be the first Washington national to be invited to back to back All- Star games, and what is going to happen with Drew Storen gets back from DL? Seeing as Drew's DL assignment ends during the All-Star break I guess were going to have to wait for both of those answers till July.
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