Before Game 1, we said it would come down to fastball command. It did. Nick Martinez’s fastball location had slipped in October. Last night it came back: his best Command Index Score of the postseason (84.7), with his cutter and sinker back to regular-season form. After two runs in the first, he didn’t allow another. Jacob Misiorowski located his four-seamer better than at any point this postseason (84.7, above his regular season). He went five strong, and the Brewers’ bullpen closed it out. Tonight’s Game 2 is a different story: a changeup duel. Drew Rasmussen and Logan Henderson, the most precise starters on each side this October, are both locating their changeups better than they did all season. The pitch I’m watching is Rasmussen’s cutter, his best in the regular season, which has slipped a little in October. Our Command Index Score measures how precisely a pitcher hits his intended target on every pitch, using standard video. #WorldSeries #MLB #Rays #Brewers #BaseballAnalytics

Check out Infinite Sky AI CEO @kenlaz on the Book of Joe podcast, airing on @FoxSportsRadio, with Tom Verducci and Joe Maddon @MaddHalos. This conversation covers Video AI, its use in Baseball and how a simple, consistent metric for command, like the Infinite Sky Command Index,, could help reshape pitching evaluation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… #InfiniteSkyAI #BookOfJoe #BaseballAnalytics #CommandIndex