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Fedde

Fedde was outstanding in his final start of the season, holding the Rockies to one run over seven innings in Colorado. The one run came on three hits int he third inning. He settled in for four more scoreless frames, striking out ten batters. The 31-year-old right-hander ends the season with a 3.30 ERA 1.16 WHIP, and a 154/52 K/BB ratio across 177 1/3 innings.

Fedde gave up four hits, walked one and struck out three. He’s won just one of his nine starts with the Cardinals since coming over to St. Louis before the trade deadline. Fedde is 8-9 with a 3.38 ERA, 1.17 WHIP and 144 strikeouts in 170 1/3 innings on the year. The 31-year-old right-hander is set to face the Rockies on the road next week.

It looked like Fedde was working on a gem until the fourth inning. He walked the lead-off hitter, never a good sign, before Vladimir Guerrero Jr. laced a game-tying double and Alejandro Kirk poked a two-out, go-ahead single. He didn’t have very good feel for his sweeper nor cutter and only forced six swings-and-misses all game. His next start is scheduled to come at home against the Pirates.

Fedde walked three, and he threw just 52-of-95 pitches for strikes while he was in the game. The right-hander was still able to limit the Seattle lineup to just one run on a sac fly by Randy Arozarena, but that was one more run than Bryce Miller allowed while Fedde was in the game. He’ll try and be more efficient and lower his 3.39 ERA against the Blue Jays next weekend.

Fedde struck out eight tonight. Just five batters reached safely against him, but four of them scored. He fell to 1-4 with a 4.64 ERA in six starts for the Cardinals. Incredibly, that’s as many losses as he had in 21 starts for the league-worst White Sox.

This was cutter-palooza with Fedde matched up against Zebby Matthews and both used theirs well. Fedde’s forced five swings-and-misses with five more called strikes, but Willi Castro took one deep that was in on his hands in the first inning. Still, this was an excellent start in what’s been an excellent season for the resurgent Fedde. He’s scheduled to face the Yankees in Yankee Stadium next time out.

After getting through the first inning without allowing a baserunner, Fedde walked back-to-back batters in the second inning only to see Sal Frelick single in Willy Adames to give the Brewers their first run of the night. Joey Ortiz singled off Fedde in the fifth inning to drive home Frelick and push the Brewers’ lead to 2-0. Fedde escaped the fifth but was pulled with two outs in the sixth inning after a walk to William Contreras. While it wasn’t a great night for Fedde, he pitched well enough to keep the Cardinals in position for the win, but lacked the run support to get it done. He’ll look to pick up his second win in a Cardinals uniform on Sunday at the Twins.

Fedde gave up 353- and 369-foot homers down the right field line tonight, and he matched his season low with only two strikeouts. He has a 5.63 ERA in three starts since being acquired by the Cardinals.

Fedde was unbelievably pesky in this one. He manipulated the edges with his cutter and sinker while sending his sweeper way out of the strike zone. Interestingly to note, Fedde threw his second lowest rate of changeups in a single start this season. The Cardinals could be tinkering with his pitch-mix, or the Rays’ lineups only had three left-handed batters in it. Fedde almost exclusively throws that pitch to lefties.

Fedde gave up two homers today, bringing his total allowed to five in his last three starts. That’s as many as he allowed in his previous 13 outings combined. It’s probably not helping that his velocity has been down a tad; his 92.4 mph average on his sinker today was his second lowest mark of the year. Fedde dropped to 7-5 with a 3.34 ERA.