Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 07, 2008
Good Pitching

There was very good pitching on the west coast Friday night as the Angels defeated the Athletics 3-1, the Dodgers downed the Cubs 3-0 and the Padres defeated the Mets 2-1 for the second day in a row. The Angels pitching staff has held the opposition to two runs or less in 13 of their last 26 games and 22 times on the season.

Most times holding the opposition to two runs or less, 2008
TeamsGames
White Sox28
Athletics23
Indians23
Angels22
Padres22
4 Teams21

Lackey continues his fine performances, lowering his ERA to 1.70 as Joe Blanton takes a hard luck loss.

Johan Santana pitched well, but his own error was his undoing as the Padres scored two in the sixth inning. However, looking at the play by play, it's not clear why one of his runs was unearned. After a Hairston double, Johan tried to get the runner going to third, and committed an error on the play, putting runners on 1st and 3rd. On the next play, however, the ball hit Hairston, resulting in that runner being put out and the batter getting a hit. At that point, Santana gives up two more hits before there are two outs, so I don't see quite how the error led to an unearned run. Randy Wolf did a better job of spreading out the Mets hits, and the Padres took home a victory.

Kuroda followed his worst outing of the year with his best, and one that may hold up as his best for a long time. He pitched the first shutout of his major league career, allowing four hits and no walks while striking out eleven. With a game score of 90, that tied for fourth highest this season. That ends the Cubs eight game winning streak, but with the Cardinals falling to Houston, Chicago maintains their lead in the NL Central.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:29 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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