To my surprise, Detwiler was called up to make sunday’s start in the place of the banished, er i mean DL’d Atilano. Surprised because;
– Detwiler had just pitched wednesday in AA, meaning he’d be going on 3 days rest
– Chico, who has already given us a decent spot start in the majors, would have been on normal rest and has been pretty dominant in AAA in his past few starts.
Nonetheless, Detwiler came up and had a pretty bad performance. 3 hits, 4 walks (one intentional), a wild pitch and 5 runs in 3 2/3 inning.
Buuuut. Zero earned runs. Now, follow these innings through and tell me how some of these runs aren’t listed as “earned.”
2nd Inning:
– gets an out
– harris fielding error puts a guy on first.
– walk
– walk. now the bases are loaded.
– Single: the reach-by-error batter scores. Sure, I can see how this is an unearned run.
– then a wild pitch scores a second batter. This is DIRECTLY on the pitcher and it makes no sense to me that it is unearned somehow.
4th inning:
– leadoff single
– gets an out, gets another out.
– Desmond throws a ball away, batter to 2nd base, and a run scores. totally unearned run.
– Detwiler then hangs a slider and Weeks kills it for a homer. Reach-by-error batter scores as does the homer-hitter. 5-0. But how exactly is the guy who hit the homer an unearned run? I know the answer is “By virtue of the fact that Desmond threw away what would have been the third out” but It just doesn’t make any sense that a runs scored by virtue of a homer could possibly be considered “unearned” by the pitcher.
eh. Anyway. I like a rotation with Detwiler and Chico (or whoever they call up next) versus one with Martin and Atilano.