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Thursday, July 07, 2005 |
The Return Of El Ladrón: Mariners 10, Angels 2
Blowouts like this just don't happen to great teams, which is why I worry about BP's third-order adjusted standing that shave five wins off the Angels' record. I'm not being too snarky about Bart; after all, it's only his second bad start in over a month. His last one was the Boston blowup, but it shows that the Angels really don't have anything like a real stopper, a true ace; against quality teams, he has a way of exploding in large numbers. Perhaps we should call him Mr. Creosote on these occaisions. I begin to wonder, too, whether he isn't a one-half performer, with the half being somewhat random. Of course, the 2005 Mariners aren't really a good team; Bart just had a bad day, or a virus, or something. But I'm being too hard; he finally did find his control, but too late; only after seven runs did he settle down.
By that time, of course, the impossible lead acted as a tonic, relaxing Pineiro, who pitched his second-best game of the year (he's had two one-run games otherwise), his second complete game of the season.
Meanwhile, Yan finally celebrated July by giving up a couple, and Gregg had to prove he was useless (despite in-house propaganda to the contrary) by spotting the M's another run in an inning of work.
What a lousy game.
Update 7/8: Okay, Sean, you win, sort of; Philadelphia and Detroit in 1927 were second and fourth place teams, respectively, but they also ended the season 19 and 27.5 games behind the Yanks respectively, so you could definitely say there is some precedent here.
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