Congratulations to Tom Wilhelmsen, the Texas reliever.
Facing his former Seattle mates, Wilhelmsen got one pitch into the 2016 season before his ERA went from zero to infinity. Robinson Cano took him deep.
And I don't mean clear-the-wall deep. I mean mid-pitch, Cano turned to the crowd and gave it a look that said, "Are you kidding me?" then turned back towards the ball in flight and gleefully yanked it into another zip code.
Three batters later, it was four times infinity, as Wilhelmsen yielded two doubles and another jack, this one to Seth Smith.
Then, with the score 8-2, he nailed Chris Iannetta in the knee, and was offered a seat in the dugout by the umpire. Luis Sardinas took his reliever yard and scored Wilhelmsen's final batter.
So with 12 pitches under his belt, Tom Wilhelmsen has an ERA of infinity times five. He'll have to retire 15 batters without a score just to reduce his ERA to 9.00. That's a tall order for a guy who throws one frame at a time.
This is a guy who, in 267 career appearances sports a 2.97 ERA.
Maybe we ought to be congratulating the Mariners.
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