Fausto Carmona & Bartolo Colon @ Fenway
Posted by Steve Lombardi on March 4, 2008
It's not as fun sounding as "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra," but, you have to wonder about "Carmona and Colon at Fenway." Playing around with Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index today, I was looking for really bad starts (by a pitcher) in the post-season. And, applying some criteria, this is what I found:
Cnt Player Date Series G Tm Opp GmReslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP ERA +----+-----------------+-------------+------+-+---+----+-------+---------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+--+--+------+ 1 Fausto Carmona 2007-10-20 ALCS 6 CLE @BOS L 2-12 GS-3 ,L 2 6 7 7 4 2 1 63 33 14 15 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 31.50 2 Brad Penny 2003-10-08 NLCS 2 FLA @CHC L 3-12 GS-3 ,L 2 7 7 7 2 0 2 54 33 12 15 12 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 31.50 3 Russ Ortiz 2002-10-20 WS 2 SFG @ANA L 10-11 GS-2 1.2 9 7 7 0 0 1 46 29 9 14 14 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 37.80 4 Bartolo Colon 1999-10-10 ALDS 4 CLE @BOS L 7-23 GS-2 ,L 1 6 7 7 1 1 2 44 27 13 10 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 63.00 5 Todd Stottlemyre 1996-10-14 NLCS 5 STL ATL L 0-14 GS-1 ,L 1 9 7 7 0 1 0 38 24 8 12 12 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 63.00 6 Tom Glavine 1992-10-13 NLCS 6 ATL PIT L 4-13 GS-1 ,L 1 6 8 7 0 0 2 35 24 11 11 9 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 63.00 Games found: 6.
Note that the two worst "starts" in American League history happened in Fenway Park. And, both times it happened to Cleveland Indian pitchers.
That's a bummer for Tribe fans, no doubt.
March 4th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Game Score is good for searches like these. Here you can see the starts above, with some other stinkers that didn't quite meet those qualifications: http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/ZnDb
March 11th, 2008 at 12:42 am
In what sense are those the two worst? Not by Game Score - they are the two *best* of the 6 you list. Not by ERA, not by runs - how are they the worst?