2 or more losses, ERA < 1.00
Posted by Raphy on July 3, 2008
THT Live has a link this Baseball Toaster post.
"I noticed where Mo lost his third game of the year despite putting together an ERA less than 1.00. How unusual is that combination? Well, here is a list of all the pitchers who have lost more than one game while posting an ERA under 1.00."
LOSSES YEAR L ERA 1 Tim Keefe 1880 6 0.86 2 Ferdie Schupp 1916 3 0.90 T3 Chris Hammond 2002 2 0.95 T3 Jonathan Papelbon 2006 2 0.92 T3 Dennis Eckersley 1990 2 0.61
I was curious about this data so I ran it through PI and came up with the following list.
Cnt Player **L** ERA Year Age Tm Lg G GS CG SHO GF W W-L% SV IP H R ER BB SO ERA HR BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP BA OBP SLG OPS OPS Pit Str ----+-----------------+------+------+----+---+---+--+---+--+--+---+--+--+-----+--+-----+---+---+---+---+---+----+--+----+----+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---- 1 Tim Keefe 6 0.86 1880 23 TRO NL 12 12 12 0 0 6 .500 0 105 71 27 10 17 43 294 0 397 0 1 0 2 Dutch Leonard 5 0.96 1914 22 BOS AL 36 25 17 7 9 19 .792 3 224.2 139 34 24 60 176 279 3 846 8 0 2 0 3 Mariano Rivera 3 0.96 2008 38 NYY AL 35 0 0 0 34 2 .400 22 37.1 20 4 4 3 42 417 2 133 129 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 .155 .173 .233 .406 9 520 362 4 Ferdie Schupp 3 0.90 1916 25 NYG NL 30 11 8 4 17 9 .750 1 140.1 79 22 14 37 86 271 1 525 5 0 2 0 5 Jonathan Papelbon 2 0.92 2006 25 BOS AL 59 0 0 0 49 4 .667 35 68.1 40 8 7 13 75 515 3 257 240 10 1 2 1 1 2 1 4 1 0 0 2 .167 .211 .254 .465 18 1023 709 6 Chris Hammond 2 0.95 2002 36 ATL NL 63 0 0 0 6 7 .778 0 76 53 15 8 31 63 439 1 311 272 11 2 9 1 5 2 7 2 1 0 0 1 .195 .278 .261 .539 45 1125 701 7 Dennis Eckersley 2 0.61 1990 35 OAK AL 63 0 0 0 61 4 .667 48 73.1 41 9 5 4 73 606 2 262 257 9 1 1 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 .160 .172 .226 .398 13 8 Rich Gossage 2 0.77 1981 29 NYY AL 32 0 0 0 30 3 .600 20 46.2 22 6 4 14 48 461 2 173 156 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 5 1 1 0 1 .141 .215 .199 .414 21 9 Hank Aguirre 2 0.69 1968 37 LAD NL 25 0 0 0 16 1 .333 3 39.1 32 8 3 13 25 400 0 167 141 1 0 3 3 6 4 2 1 1 0 0 4 .227 .298 .234 .532 68 10 Bill Henry 2 0.87 1964 36 CIN NL 37 0 0 0 20 2 .500 6 52 31 9 5 12 28 417 2 202 182 6 0 4 3 3 2 3 3 0 0 0 1 .170 .231 .236 .467 35 11 Bill Harris 2 0.87 1931 31 PIT NL 4 4 3 1 0 2 .500 0 31 21 6 3 9 10 444 0 121 0 0 0 0 12 Jack Bentley 2 0.79 1915 20 WSH AL 4 2 0 0 2 0 .000 0 11.1 8 4 1 3 0 373 0 43 0 0 0 0 13 Martin Glendon 2 0.98 1903 26 CLE AL 3 3 3 0 0 1 .333 0 27.2 20 9 3 7 9 291 0 112 0 0 0 0
Rivera is certainly working his way toward a unique season, but not as unique as the post suggests.