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Miranda's 3 innings at Cincinnati from the DVR.  My perspective from replay:

1st inning:  There's a definite drop and glove side ride on 3 pitches to the 3rd and 4th batters.  Ball 3 and 4 to lefty Votto and the one pulled out to LF by Mesoraco.  Those looked like definitely what we're talking about but there's 3 other pitches from the inning that might have been. Strike 1 on RH Gosman, just before Votto, looked like it might have started outside and come back into the plate as it was watched.  2 of the next 3 pitches looked similar but swung over to complete the K for out #2. 

2nd inning...2 ignored by LH, 1 by RH moving down and gloveside off the zone.  Then strike 3 to end the inning on a RHB.

3rd... starts off with a 12-6 inside to LHB, which used to describe his Slider.  2nd pitch dropped and rode away, swung over.  I think the next may have been another that didn't break, base hit (based on setup).  Next batter RH, throws 2 pitches in a row outside that drop in for looking Ks.  Mesoraco almost hit another one out (foul) and he stopped going to the pitch.  That inning was the eventual bases loaded 1 out pop to CF that the runner at 3rd tagged and got gunned down by Dee just a few pitches later.

I counted 10 placed low on gloveside, 3 that seemed to slide into the arm side of the zone from looking outside it to start and another flat pitch that the setup matched the 10.  That seems high, it's possible I misread some.  Probably 6 or 7 of the 10 were bounced, but either 2 or 3 solid out pitch looking Ks on the ones that were commanded and controlled.  But also the HR from Mesoraco who seemed to love the low and inside pitches.  I saw the potential of a plus pitch anyway, just not consistently.  He definitely has a pitch that breaks gloveside but it seemed like it might mostly be breaking too early or thrown too low.

The Reds announcer kept calling them splitters but that's not how his split normally moves.  But then he had a slider previously that broke differently so I'm not really certain.

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