Baseball is a funny game. I'm watching the Tigers vs. the M's. Verlander is facing off with Felix Hernandez. If you watched either of these guys pitch and then watched Joe Saunders or Jeremy Guthrie, you'd say to yourself, "Those guys are legions ahead of the other two". Yet, when you look at their end of year numbers, the two guys who couldn't blow away household dust tend to end up with better stats. And it's not like Verlander or Felix are wild with their dynamite stuff. They tend to hit their spots, and they have at least 3 pitches to keep hitter off balance.
Anyway, Verlander is perfect through 4, and Felix is struggling because the ball keeps finding a hole.