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Francisco Liriano is allowing a lot of 1st-inning runs this year

Posted by Andy on July 3, 2010

On Fox's national telecast of the Twins/Rays games, future HOFer Bert Blyleven mentioned that Francisco Liriano has been allowing a lot of first inning runs this year. Let's take a look.

Here are Liriano's splits by inning so far in 2010:

Split G IP ER ERA PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO
1st inning 15 15.0 11 6.60 72 64 11 23 6 1 0 3 0 5 16
2nd inning 15 15.0 4 2.40 62 55 4 13 1 0 1 1 1 4 16
3rd inning 15 15.0 8 4.80 62 59 8 15 2 0 1 0 0 3 18
4th inning 15 15.0 6 3.60 63 58 6 16 2 0 0 1 0 5 15
5th inning 15 14.2 4 2.45 59 54 4 13 5 0 0 0 1 5 16
6th inning 13 13.0 4 2.77 51 49 4 11 4 1 0 1 0 2 12
7th inning 9 8.0 1 1.12 30 26 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 3 10
8th inning 3 3.0 0 0.00 12 12 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 7/3/2010.

Indeed, he's allowed 11 of his 38 earned runs (29%) in the first inning.

That should change over the rest of the year as his career splits by inning tell a different story:

I Split G IP ER ERA PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO
1st inning 73 72.2 28 3.47 302 273 29 67 10 1 2 14 0 20 84
2nd inning 72 71.2 32 4.02 306 264 36 57 15 0 8 6 2 30 69
3rd inning 72 69.2 38 4.91 298 266 42 71 17 2 7 2 5 28 68
4th inning 70 69.2 44 5.68 301 269 44 76 19 0 9 5 2 27 71
5th inning 65 62.2 26 3.73 259 226 27 56 15 0 8 1 3 28 64
6th inning 51 47.2 19 3.59 193 178 18 41 10 1 3 7 1 14 46
7th inning 43 39.2 9 2.04 160 148 8 34 5 0 2 4 2 11 42
8th inning 21 17.2 6 3.06 74 70 4 18 3 0 3 0 0 4 23
9th inning 6 4.2 1 1.93 22 21 2 6 0 0 1 0 0 1 5
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 7/3/2010.

Liriano has historically allowed a lot more runs in the 3rd and 4th innings. That's a bit surprising to me as I thought run-scoring was usually highest in the 1st and 6th innings (I did a post on that a while back...)

Related posts:

    Baseball Digest Daily News – 10-inning starts year-by-year
    Allowing 10+ runs but 5- earned runs
    One Hitters Allowing 2+ Runs
    Consecutive Starts Without Allowing 4 Runs
    Consecutive Games Without Allowing 4 Runs

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6 Responses to “Francisco Liriano is allowing a lot of 1st-inning runs this year”

  1. Pete Says:
    July 3rd, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    Blyleven's doing the game? That explains his comment that the Garza/Bartlett for Delmon Young trade has worked out for BOTH teams.

  2. Andy Says:
    July 3rd, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    I swear I think I've heard Blyleven say "Spam" twice instead of "Span".

  3. Erik Says:
    July 3rd, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    Andy:

    Do you have a link to that article you did on when run production is at it's peak?

    Thanks.

  4. Andy Says:
    July 3rd, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    Here it is:

    http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5228

  5. Leatherman Says:
    July 4th, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    Greg Maddux had a 4.09 ERA in the first inning. His 2nd worst inning was the 6th inning, at 3.40. All other innings were under 3.18.

  6. Kahuna Tuna Says:
    July 4th, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    We Padres fans remember Joey Hamilton, who was pretty good when — if — he could get out of the first inning.

    Hamilton's splits by inning

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