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January 21, 2008

Yovani Gallardo

Filed under: Game Finders, Leaders — Raphy @ 1:47 pm

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!

7 Comments »

  1. 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

    Comment by Mike Minetti — January 21, 2008 @ 1:57 pm

  2. 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

    Comment by Mike Minetti — January 21, 2008 @ 2:03 pm

  3. 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

    Comment by Mike Minetti — January 21, 2008 @ 2:15 pm

  4. The correct link for #3 above:

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/uaMq

    Comment by Mike Minetti — January 21, 2008 @ 2:16 pm

  5. That’s just freaky.

    Comment by Raphy — January 21, 2008 @ 2:54 pm

  6. 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

    Comment by Mike Minetti — January 21, 2008 @ 3:30 pm

  7. So much for 2008:
    http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080511&content_id=2682297&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

    Comment by Raphy — May 11, 2008 @ 9:08 pm

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