Yovani Gallardo
Posted by Raphy on January 21, 2008
Yovani Gallardo came up on top of 2 of my PI searches today, so I thought that he was worth a mention.
Gallardo is a 21 year old kid who pitches for the Brewers. In fact, among all pitchers who made their major league debut last year and pitched significant innings as a starter, Gallardo had the best ERA+. Included in that ERA+ is an August 8th game when the kid met the Colorado air. The result was the lowest game score of the season and the 6th lowest since 1957. In fact, the game was so detrimental to Gallardo’s numbers, his ERA without it would have been 2.84 instead of 3.67. Had Gallardo missed that game, he would have been second in the majors in ERA
(among pitchers with 100 IP) instead of 25th!
January 21st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Which makes this the only game in the last 51 years that a team has won despite a negative game score (less than 0):
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ANA/ANA199707310.shtml
January 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Who is the only pitcher (since 1957) to win more than one game with a games score under 18?
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/jB6w
January 21st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
OT, but I just had to share this. Who are the only 2 pitchers since 1890 that have started 60% of their games, have at least 125 decisions, have an ERA+ of 110 or more, but a W/L % under .460?
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/jB6w
January 21st, 2008 at 2:16 pm
The correct link for #3 above:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/uaMq
January 21st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
That's just freaky.
January 21st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Who is the only pitcher (since 1957) to win more than one game while allowing 8+ ER's?
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/saga
Who has won the most games (by far) when allowing 5 or more ER's?
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/4NX5
May 11th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
So much for 2008:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080511&content_id=2682297&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb