No. 1 starters, of course, start their team’s season openers, so a 15-10 score on Opening Day suggests that something has gone very, very wrong. Neither the Indians’ Fausto Carmona nor the White Sox’s Mark Buehrle were impressive, but Carmona’s day was supernaturally bad: in only three innings, he threw 88 pitches and gave up 10 runs on 11 hits.
Fausto Carmona’s Comically High ERA, Brought To You By Miniscule Sample Size
↵This puts Carmona’s ERA for the season at a comically overblown 30.00. To put into perspective how frustrating it must be to dig yourself in such a deep statistical hole from the outset of a season, he can lower his ERA to 4.28 with back-to-back complete-game shutouts.
↵In the interest of fairness, I should also point out that Chicago’s Will Ohman’s ERA is now 40.50 after an ill-fated relief appearance. You know, if these pitchers wouldn’t get off to such shaky starts, we would never have to put an extra millimeter in online statistical tables under “ERA” to make space for double-digit figures. Think of how many E-trees have been chopped down for their sakes! Get it together, pitchers!
↵For more, check out SB Nation’s Indians blog, Let’s Go Tribe.
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