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Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
The Loss That Feels Like A Win: Royals 3, Angels 1
A lousy, drizzly night at Kauffman Field, ending in an Angels loss, yet there were some good things to take from it.
- It wasn't a blowout. The Angels had plenty of baserunners.
- Ervin Santana pitched well on the road, putting up a quality start plus, with three earned runs in 6.1 IP. That's his best outing since a September 24, 2006 game at Oakland in which he surrendered only one run (earned) over eight innings; the Angels won 7-1, and Santana collected a win as well. Here's a list of all Ervin's road starts for 2006; red means he did not achieve a quality start, green means he did.
Date Opp GmReslt Pitcher Result IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA BF Pit Str +---------+----+-------+--------------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+------+--+---+--- Apr 14 @BAL L 5-6 GS-7 7 6 4 4 0 2 3 3.55 26 83 56 Apr 19 @MIN L 10-12 GS-6 5.2 7 8 3 3 5 0 3.93 27 100 65 May 5 @TOR L 3-13 GS-5 ,L 2-1 4 9 7 6 4 4 0 4.84 25 89 54 May 10 @CHW W 12-5 GS-6 ,W 3-1 6 3 3 3 1 7 1 4.79 23 99 61 May 21 @LAD L 0-7 GS-4 ,L 4-2 4 5 5 5 1 2 1 5.02 17 53 33 Jun 6 @TBD W 12-2 GS-7 ,W 5-3 7 2 1 1 1 7 0 4.32 24 99 62 Jun 23 @ARI W 8-2 GS-6 ,W 8-3 6 7 2 2 6 2 1 4.03 29 108 63 Jul 4 @SEA W 14-6 GS-8 ,W 9-3 8 6 6 6 1 6 2 4.13 30 103 69 Jul 9 @OAK W 4-2 GS-7 ,W 10-3 7 5 2 1 3 5 0 3.96 29 107 65 Jul 20 @KCR L 4-9 GS-5 4.1 5 4 4 8 4 0 4.03 25 103 46 Jul 25 @TBD L 3-6 GS-7 ,L 11-4 6.1 9 6 6 0 6 1 4.25 28 99 72 Aug 10 @CLE L 2-14 GS-1 ,L 12-6 0.1 1 1 1 0 1 0 4.14 2 5 4 Aug 15 @TEX W 9-7 GS-5 5 7 6 6 2 3 3 4.36 22 101 66 Sep 1 @DET L 0-9 GS-4 ,L 13-7 4 7 5 5 1 7 1 4.50 20 87 57 Sep 17 @TEX L 1-8 GS-5 ,L 14-8 5 7 4 4 2 2 0 4.57 22 91 53 Sep 24 @OAK W 7-1 GS-8 ,W 15-8 8 2 1 1 2 2 0 4.43 28 97 59
Categorizing these:- Overall, Santana had six quality starts on the road. The Angels won all those games.
- The team won only two of the games where he did not have a quality start, the July 4 game against Seattle and the August 15 game against Texas. Santana was the losing pitcher in six of those.
- Santana's August 10 start against Cleveland ended after only one out when he took a line drive to the shin.
- Finally, Darren Oliver had a good game. He's not as bad as his ERA would make him seem; remove his two bad games, and Oliver has an ERA of zero.
Labels: angels, recaps, royals
Comments:
I agree that it wasn't a terribly disturbing loss. Except don't you think it might've ended up a win if Scoscia had gone to his bullpen sooner?
- Chris
- Chris
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