RA Dickey Is Bouncing Back

ESPN:

R.A. Dickey threw a faster floater, and that meant trouble for the Detroit Tigers.
The knuckleballer won again, Jose Reyes and Mark DeRosa homered and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the slumping Tigers 8-3 on Monday for their seventh straight home win.The Blue Jays delighted a sellout crowd of 45,766 on Canada Day with their 11th victory in 13 games at Rogers Centre.Coming off his two-hit shutout against Tampa Bay, Dickey (8-8) was sharp and won for the third time in four starts. The knuckleballer allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings, striking out four and walking one."Just another great outing," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "Second one in a row. I see more bite on his knuckleball than we've seen in the past a little bit."Plagued by back and neck soreness early in the season, Dickey has put those issues behind him and found increased velocity as a result."It's been kind of a tough go getting it back," Dickey said of his velocity. "I threw a knuckleball 81 miles an hour today, I threw a lot at 80 miles an hour, I threw an 85 mile an hour fastball. All those velocities are tops for the year."That's the velocity I could count on last year," he said. "You can get away with a lot more mistakes when the velocity's up there."Detroit slugger Prince Fielder said it was tough to track Dickey's dancing pitches."It was knuckling," Fielder said. "It's hard for catchers to catch it, so imagine how hard it is to hit it."

It's good he's coming around.  The amazing stat is that he's started 18 games and gotten 16 decisions.  If he can keep bring that knuckleball at 80 or 81, he'll be sitting pretty damn good.