5/22/2008

How he did it

MiLB.com got in touch with Wisconsin pitching coach Jaime Navarro after the Rattler win last night. The folks over there wanted to know how Edward Paredes took a no-hitter through 7-2/3 innings.

"I was working on his mechanics and his command, and today was one of those days where he went in and concentrated and he went and did exactly what I'd told him," Wisconsin pitching coach Jaime Navarro said. "All his pitches were working pretty well tonight, but he has a changeup that's outstanding.

"I told him, 'You have to mix it up, in and out, don't stay in one place.' He came back and got ahead mostly on the changeup and kept it down and got the batters off-balance."

A little confidence builder?...like a guy who's won three in a row needs an ego boost...

"It's going help him, absolutely, a lot," Navarro said of Paredes. "He didn't go out there and throw, he went out there and pitched. That's going to make a big difference for him and, hopefully, he's going to keep this going to his next start and keep the same approach."

That next start is Memorial Day at Peoria.

A few notes about the near no-no:

Last night was the second combined one-hit shutout by the Rattlers this season. The first was game two of the doubleheader at Quad Cities on April 5. Donnie Hume, Travis Mortimore, and Shawn Kelley combined on a 2-0 victory over the River Bandits.

The last no-hitter by a Rattler pitcher was in Cedar Rapids at old Veterans Memorial Stadium. Derrick Van Dusen beat the Kernels on August 27, 2001

The deepest a Rattler pitcher took a no-hitter into a game last year was Tony Butler, who retired the first 20 Beloit Snappers he faced in Grand Chute on August 10. Butler walked a batter with two outs in the seventh and gave up a triple to the next batter.

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