48 of Sonny Gray's 85 strikeouts have come on the curveball or sweeper, and this Red's team has struggled to avoid striking out against right handers who throw breaking pitches like that. As an example, recently against Slade Cecconi, the Reds swung at 12 sliders/curveballs, and whiffed on nine of them. Gray has a whiff rate of 37.9% on the sweeper and better than 32% on the curveball, with those being two of his main strikeout pitches. The third strikeout pitch is a sinker that has just a 14% whiff rate but shown success with called strikes late in the count. Cincy is top-5 in MLB for strikeouts looking, and this sets up for Gray to work deeper into the game and grab some strikeout.