But he not only got out of it — getting Randy Arozarena to ground into a double play — he did so with just eight pitches, all strikes.

Maeda brought all of his seven flavors with him — four-seam, sinker, slider, splitter, sweeper, cutter and curveball — and he mixed them brilliantly.

With a runner on third (who reached on an error by second baseman Colt Keith) and one out in the third, Maeda struck out Richie Palacios. He got behind in the count 2-0 with sweepers, then went sweeper (called strike), splitter (swinging strike), slider (swinging strike three).

He got Amed Rosario to pop out to second to end the inning, mixing in sinkers, four-seamers, sliders and splitters.

He won a 10-pitch fight with Paredes in the fourth inning. Paredes fouled off four straight 2-2 pitches. The first of those was maybe the worst pitch Maeda threw — a center-cut 90-mph four-seamer that somehow Paredes missed. After that, every pitch was away and finally Maeda got him to chase a slider well outside the zone.

He got ahead of 13 of the 20 batters he faced and had a strike percentage of 67%.

Maeda finished his night retiring Palacios again, this time with runners at first and second.

Faedo pitched a scoreless seventh and Alex Lange a scoreless eighth. Jason Foley pitched a clean ninth for his seventh save.

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