No doubt, but if blame has to be given- not that it has to be given- to one aspect of our pitching in game 1: starter vs pen, it was more Eovaldi's fault we lost.
That's more than Sawamura and others. It's a better deal than Hill got. It's total more money than Wacha.
Until the Story deal, it was the biggest 2 year deal after Kike.
I was baffled on day one. There is nothing spectacular about him or even really anything clearly positive about his career, except a decent year here and there- mostly long ago.
Portland won 11-5.
Hamilton 4 for 5 with 7 RBI from the lead-off slot. (2 HRs and a triple) Maybe Bloom was right! JBJ who?
Koss, Reed and Cottam with 2 hits, each. Potts with 2 BB and 2 runs scored
Murphy 4 IP, 1 ER (2H, 3 BB, 7K)
Portland won 11-5.
Hamilton 4 for 5 with 7 RBI from the lead-off slot. (2 HRs and a triple)
Koss, Reed and Cottam with 2 hits, each. Potts with 2 BB and 2 runs scored
Murphy 4 IP, 1 ER (2H, 3 BB, 7K)
The damn man on second to start the inning rule makes it very hard to judge the effectiveness of an extra inning RP'er's outing.
They don't count it as an earned run, but it kinda feels like one.
Officially, today our starter and pen did this:
SP: 5 IP 3 ER 5 Hits & 1 BB & 1 HBP & 2 HR
RP: 6 IP 1 ER (plus the 2 " non earned" runs allowed in extras.) 5 hits & 3 BB & 1 HBP & 1 HR
Just looking at the numbers, the pen did slightly better than Eovaldi.
How many times did he go 38 pitches?
He threw 59 pitches in his first outing, last year on April 4th (3.1 IP).
He threw 38 or more 3 times, as well, but he threw 37+ pitches six times, 35 nine times and 33 twelve times.