For whatever it's worth: 2009's best and worst pitching performances

by KLSnow on Oct 3, 2009 5:15 PM CDT in Conversation Starters Comment 9 comments

Here are the best starting pitching performances of 2009 (pending tomorrow's game, of course), sorted by Game Score:

#	Pitcher	Date	Opp	IP	H	ER	BB	K	Score	Decision
1	Yovani Gallardo	4/29	PIT	8	2	0	1	11	88	W
2	Yovani Gallardo	6/5	@ATL	8	2	0	4	6	80	W
3	Yovani Gallardo	5/25	STL	8	2	0	4	6	80	ND
4	Manny Parra	7/9	STL	7	3	0	1	7	77	ND
5	Yovani Gallardo	4/24	@HOU	9	5	2	0	7	76	W
6	Dave Bush	9/12	@ARI	7	5	1	0	11	74	W
7	Yovani Gallardo	7/1	NYM	7	5	1	2	12	73	L
8	Yovani Gallardo	6/26	SFG	7.2	4	1	3	9	73	W
9	Yovani Gallardo	7/25	ATL	7.1	4	0	4	6	72	W
10	Dave Bush	4/23	@PHI	7.2	2	1	3	4	72	W

And the ten worst:

#	Pitcher	Date	Opp	IP	H	ER	BB	K	Score	Decisioin
1	Manny Parra	6/2	@FLA	4	11	10	2	5	3	L
2	Dave Bush	9/2	@STL	3.1	11	8	2	2	6	L
3	Jeff Suppan	7/27	WSN	5.1	10	10	4	4	8	L
4	Manny Parra	5/22	@MIN	3.1	8	8	3	1	8	L
5	Jeff Suppan	9/24	PHI	4.1	12	7	2	2	9	L
6	Braden Looper	9/21	CHC	4	10	7	2	1	16	L
7	Dave Bush	6/15	@CLE	3.1	6	8	2	2	16	ND
8	Manny Parra	6/13	CHW	1.2	6	6	3	0	16	L
9	Manny Parra	8/23	@WSN	3.1	8	5	1	0	17	L
10	Carlos Villanueva	8/17	@PIT	4	11	6	1	2	17	L

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And herein lies the paradox of Parra

Worst pitching performance of the year, and 4 in the 10 worst, but the only Brewer pitcher not named Yovani with one of the top 5 best

Brewers Baseball and other assorted nonsense (mostly the assorted nonsense) at my blog, What's a Tararrel?

by Lefti on Oct 3, 2009 6:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

To be fair

The start where Parra gave up 10 against FLA, he should have been pulled after he gave up the first 5 runs. That was the start where our bullpen was cashed and Macha went out and told him he was taking one for the team.

Give him an offspeed pitch down and in. He will swing and miss.

by cooper82 on Oct 3, 2009 7:24 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Seven of the top ten

and I knew even before I went and looked it up what game the #1 performance was. Oh, Yo. <3

by dragonflyball on Oct 3, 2009 8:16 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I'll wager 2008's top ten had a few more with 9 IP

I’m actually a bit shocked that there were only four with at least 8 IP.

Yo’s failure to manage his pitch counts and the other four’s failure to…well, that’s the second half of the list.

by infield fly on Oct 3, 2009 9:24 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

The four letter network weighs in:

“Box Score Lines of the Year

Ugliest Win of the Year: Manny Parra, Brewers
Reason No. 5,847 not to take the old win column too seriously: Zack Greinke made six starts this year in which he gave up one earned run or none and didn’t get a win. But Parra somehow got a W out of this action-packed Aug. 13 start against the Padres:

5 2/3 IP, 13 H, 6 R, 6 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, 2 HR.

Hey, it was worth it — because Parra became the first pitcher in 20 years to win a 13-hitter that included at least two walks and two gopherballs.

Special Manny Parra Bonus Box Score
But that wasn’t our man Manny’s only epic box-score adventure. On June 2, he did something no pitcher had done since Rick Reed on April 21, 2003 — strike out the first three hitters he faced and then stick around to give up at least 10 runs:

4 IP, 11 H, 10 R, 10 ER, 2 BB, 5 K, 2 HR, 2 WP. "

Ibid.

by 400metres on Oct 3, 2009 10:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

by roguejim on Oct 4, 2009 7:26 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I was at worst game #4

It looked worse in person.

by morineko on Oct 4, 2009 8:29 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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