There’s not a lot of carry-over for Bailey Falter when he pitches. Each pitch is its own pitch. Each inning is its own inning. And each start is its own start.

He doesn’t seem to be too interested in momentum. So the two terrible starts which began his career with the Williamsport Crosscutters have long since disappeared from his mind.

The only thing he draws from them now is the change in how he feels on the mound. The 19-year-old southpaw notices the difference because of how comfortable he is on the mound again.

It’s the same way he felt when he was tearing it up during extended spring training before coming to Williamsport to start the abbreviated 76-game schedule. He admitted following another strong outing Thursday night in the Cutters’ 2-1 loss to State College that the players in the New York-Penn League are better than what he had faced before. But after those first two starts, he could feel that he’s calmed down.

And now, for the 2015 fifth-round draft pick, it’s just about pitching again. It’s about having a focus start to start on something he wants to improve on.

Over recent weeks, it’s been about using his lower half more in his delivery. In his first start at Bowman Field since July 8 on Thursday night, the change in Falter’s delivery was quite noticeable. Instead of drifting forward as he delivered his 84 pitches to the plate, he was driving off the pitching rubber.

His fastball was more firm. It made his change-up play up even better, too.

“(Pitching coach Hector Berrios) constantly gets on me about that,” Falter said. “I’ve been working on it and it’s been working out for me.”

Not only has it made a difference in the results for Falter over his last five starts, but it’s made a difference on the radar gun, too. At the start of the season he was sitting consistently at about 87-90 mph with his fastball, which was still an improvement of the 86-87 mph he was at during high school.

But during Thursday night’s start, Alec Dopp, who covers minor league baseball for BaseballHQ.com, tweeted Falter sat 89-92 and touched 93 with his fastball. And that came one start after Falter reportedly touched 94 in a start at Batavia where he struck out 10 in six innings.

This because of the adjustments he’s made using his lower half.

“I need to come to the highest point (with my leg kick) and lead with my hip instead of drifting out there,” Falter said. “Because I used to get out in front a lot. But I feel like I’ve been staying back a lot better.”

Falter said staying back has also allowed him to be more fine with his command. The numbers show it, too. Over his last four starts in which pitch count numbers were available, he’s thrown 66.2 percent of his pitches for strikes. That’s up from his season average of 62.7 percent.

Also, over his last five starts and 27 innings, he’s walked just one batter. That came after walking six in his first two starts.

Also over that time, Falter has struck out 35 batters, including three starts of at least eight strikeouts.

“I think his location is helping him get strikeouts,” Cutters manager Pat Borders said. “The differential between the speeds of his breaking ball, change-up and his fastball, along with the location is producing strikeouts. He’s got enough differential and locates the fastball that he gets those emergency swings.”

The one thing Falter is working on most now is bringing down his pitch count per inning. In Thursday’s loss, he averaged 16.8 pitches per inning. His 14-pitch third inning was the fewest number of pitches he threw in one frame.

For the season he’s averaged 17 pitches per inning. Borders said it’s a process for some pitchers to learn how to pitch to good contact and get out of innings quickly. It’s something both Adonis Medina and Ranger Suarez have done really well for the Crosscutters this year.

“He has the kind of stuff to do it with his change-up and that fastball location,” Borders said. “He’ll get better at making innings shorter. I’m pretty confident with his stuff he can do that, especially with what I’ve seen the last three or four starts.”

“Mostly it’s been the first couple of innings of each start where I have that high pitch count,” Falter said. “I’ve been working on that a little bit. I’ve been preparing a little bit more mentally before a game to see if I can get those counts lower early in the game.

“When I would warm-up before, I just kind of went through the motions. I’ve been working lately on hitters’ counts and throwing to invisible batters, and it’s working out for me so far. So I’m going to stick with that.”