The Marlins bullpen gave up a pair of home runs to the Rays in the next two innings. He said he felt good physically but with the season going from 60 to 162 again, managers will likely be hesitant to keep starting pitchers out for long especially when there is a desire to give the relieves on the mound for the first time. Lopez threw 77 pitches after five innings. They got five lefties, four righties, so it’s good to have pitches that have both movements to both the arm side and glove side.” “You’re going to face teams that have very good balance like the Rays. He’s trying to do that with a cutter, sinker, and curveball. The next step for him is to establish a better breaking ball and have five pitches to work with. Lopez showed a lot of improvement last season, dropping his ERA from 5.09 in 2019 to 3.61 and struck out more batters than innings pitched for the first time in his young career. “Once I was able to get through the first inning I was able to settle down a little bit more and it was about executing pitches.” The Rays ended up winning 6-4 on Friday after a four-run rally in the ninth inning. Lopez started the 2021 season by shutting out the defending American League champion Tampa Bay Rays for five innings, allowing only two hits with two walks and four strikeouts. “A lot of excitement, a lot of butterflies going on,” Lopez said. Opening Day came and gone, but for the other pitchers in the Miami Marlins starting rotation, like Pablo Lopez, that feeling still persists.

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