Mowing 'Em Down In Futility

This box score piqued my interest:

Gio Gonzalez threw eight effective innings against the White Sox yesterday, limiting them to six hits, including just one extra base hit, no home runs, no walks and 11 strikeouts. He hit one batter but had no errors behind him. 

Man did he have it going on. Yet somehow, he gave up four runs.

He did that by allowing three of the five singles, the hit batsman and the triple within six batters of the fifth inning.  He suffered the complete game loss for Oakland, 4-1.

I promise that the next time you see a pitcher relinquish four scores in a complete game with seven baserunners, no dingers and one extra bse hit, while fanning double digits, you will be an old man, woman or Sunog. 

If you are already an old man, woman or Sunog, you probably saw this happen last when you were a young one.

Just for comparison, the same day, Dodger ace Clayton Kershaw went seven fine innings (one fewer) and allowed 10 baserunners (three more) --four walks, three singles, two doubles and a triple, plus two stolen bases. He whiffed only six (five fewer). The Giants scored just two runs off him, though that was also enough to hang an L on his record.

You see something new in baseball everyday. And tomorrow, they do it all over again.

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