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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.

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