It was a big night on Monday for Diamondback starter Zach Duke. His team spotted him 12 runs in four innings and he smashed a two-run cookie at the plate against the drowning Marlins.
Alas, Duke did not get the win. Up nine-zip, he relinquished three runs in the third, one in the fourth and another three before he could get out of the fifth. Duke left the game with a five-run cushion, but came an out short of "earning" the win.
The good news is: he didn't lose. That's high praise for a 4 2/3-inning performance of seven runs on 13 hits, including doubles by each of the two opposing pitchers. It can come as some consolation that the Brewers' Randy Wolf and Cubs' Ryan Dempster also didn't win, despite pitching seven shutout frames against each other. They walked one and fanned 14 between them.
Also not losing was the Rays' Alex Cobb (5 2/3 shutout innnings) and Detroit's Phil Coke (6 1/3 innings of goose eggs). So they're all in the same boat with Duke as far as the W-L record goes.
A.J. Burnett can't say the same. He held Cleveland to a run on five hits, a walk and eight strikeouts in 7 2/3 innings. But he was "charged" with the loss.
Of course, there's one thing Duke accomplished that the rest of the pitchers didn't. In a 12-9 barn burner he hit the game's only home run.
Baseball's a crazy game.
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