10 April 2012

Yu and You


Great news for Japan! Yu Darvish won “his much anticipated major league debut in the Rangers’ victory” over Seattle last night, according to the Associated Press.

Please. You had as much to do with that victory as Yu.

Darvish got rocked out of the gate for five runs in the first two innings and ran into trouble again in the sixth before reliever Alexi Ogando and the powerful Texas lineup bailed him out. Down 4-0 thanks to Darvish, the Rangers pasted Mariner starter Hector Noesi  and three relievers for 11 runs. Ian Kinsler, Josh Hamilton, Nelson Cruz and Mitch Moreland deserve the credit for going yard and erasing the ill effects of eight hits, four walks, one hit-by-pitch and one wild pitch allowed by a whirling Darvish.

It’s another example of how irrelevant the W is for starting pitchers. Would the Whigs who defend pitching wins like to argue that Darvish pitched to the score when he allowed four runs in the top of the first inning to the worst-hitting team in baseball?
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