page_title: Nick Pivetta
section_title: 2018–2020
hierarchical_section_title: Nick Pivetta / Career / Philadelphia Phillies / 2018–2020
caption_attribution_description: Nick Pivetta
context_page_description: Nicholas John Carlo Pivetta, is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. The Washington Nationals selected Pivetta in the fourth round of the 2013 MLB draft. He was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies during the 2015 season, and made his MLB debut with them in 2017 and played with them through 2020. Listed at 6 feet 5 inches and 220 pounds, he throws and bats right-handed.
context_section_description: In 2018, Pivetta was 7-14 with a 4.77 ERA, 5th in the National League with 10.32 strikeouts-per-9-innings-pitched (the 2nd-highest rate of any Phillie pitcher in franchise history, behind Curt Schilling's 11.29 in 1997), 8th in the NL in strikeouts (188) and wild pitches (11), 9th in the NL in games started (32) and strikeouts/walk (3.69), and led the major leagues in allowing opposing batters the highest batting average on balls in play (.326). He struck out a career-high 13 batters on June 18 against St. Louis. His fastball was clocked as high as 98 miles per hour.
  In 2019, Pivetta struggled at the beginning of the season before being demoted to AAA. With Lehigh Valley he was 5-1 with a 3.07 ERA, as in 9 games (6 starts) and 41.0 innings he struck out 58 batters (with a 12.7 strikeouts/innings ratio, 5th-best in the International League), and giving up 23 hits had the best hits/9 innings ratio in the league at 5.0.  On July 19, it was announced he would be shifted to a relief role. In 2019 with the Phillies he was 4-6 with one save and a 5.38 ERA, as in 30 games (13 starts) he pitched 93.2 innings.
  Pivetta made three appearances with Philadelphia during the start-delayed 2020 season, registering a 15.88 ERA in ​5 ²⁄₃ innings pitched.
caption: Nick Pivetta in 2018
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