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- Updated: July 27, 2016
BOSTON — A day after Joe Kelly’s first relief outing in a Red Sox uniform, the fireballer admitted he was a little amped up during his one inning in Monday’s 4-2 loss to the Tigers.
While Kelly consistently hit triple digits on the radar gun, his fastball lacked location and he had trouble getting his secondary pitches over for strikes.
That was the case when Justin Upton smacked a 101-mph heater into right-center for a triple to lead off the seventh inning. He later scored on a single by James McCann.
“I wouldn’t say I was overthrowing. I felt like I had more in there,” Kelly said. “It is going to be a fine line coming out of the bullpen. Flirting with the velocity and then what the situation calls for in locating balls.”
Kelly tossed 21 pitches, seven of which were over 100 mph. That is more than all Red Sox …
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