Battered In October
Posted by Steve Lombardi on August 29, 2008
Here's a fun little list via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Post-Season Pitching Game Finder...
The only pitchers who have allowed 8 earned runs, or more, in a post-season game:
Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Jay Witasick 1 Ind. Games David Wells 1 Ind. Games Chien-Ming Wang 1 Ind. Games C.C. Sabathia 1 Ind. Games Steve Reed 1 Ind. Games Jake Peavy 1 Ind. Games Greg Maddux 1 Ind. Games Matt Clement 1 Ind. Games Guy Bush 1 Ind. Games Pete Alexander 1 Ind. Games Paul Abbott 1 Ind. Games Games found: 11.
Now, if you really want to get fancy, look at each of these outings ranked by fewest batters faced:
Cnt Player Date Series G Tm Opp GmReslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS **BF** AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP ERA +----+-----------------+-------------+------+-+---+----+-------+---------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----+--+--+------+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+--+--+------+ 1 Jay Witasick 2001-11-03 WS 6 NYY @ARI L 2-15 3-4 1.1 10 9 8 0 4 0 49 36 2 2 14 14 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 54.00 2 Steve Reed 1999-10-10 ALDS 4 CLE @BOS L 7-23 4-5 1.1 7 8 8 1 1 1 34 18 0 0 14 11 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54.00 3 Pete Alexander 1928-10-05 WS 2 STL @NYY L 3-9 GS-3 ,L 2.1 6 8 8 4 1 1 10 17 12 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30.86 4 Matt Clement 2005-10-04 ALDS 1 BOS @CHW L 2-14 GS-4 ,L 3.1 7 8 8 0 0 3 64 41 14 18 15 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 21.60 5 Paul Abbott 2001-10-13 ALDS 3 SEA @CLE L 2-17 3-6 3 9 8 8 5 3 3 81 43 0 0 22 17 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24.00 6 Greg Maddux 1989-10-04 NLCS 1 CHC SFG L 3-11 GS-4 ,L 4 8 8 8 1 3 2 83 54 16 22 19 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 18.00 7 Jake Peavy 2005-10-04 NLDS 1 SDP @STL L 5-8 GS-5 ,L 4.1 8 8 8 3 3 2 70 44 15 23 20 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 16.62 8 C.C. Sabathia 2007-10-12 ALCS 1 CLE @BOS L 3-10 GS-5 ,L 4.1 7 8 8 5 3 0 85 44 15 24 17 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 16.62 9 David Wells 2002-10-05 ALDS 4 NYY @ANA L 5-9 GS-5 ,L 4.2 10 8 8 0 0 1 59 43 12 24 23 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 15.43 10 Chien-Ming Wang 2007-10-04 ALDS 1 NYY @CLE L 3-12 GS-5 ,L 4.2 9 8 8 4 2 2 94 58 12 25 20 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 15.43 11 Guy Bush 1932-09-28 WS 1 CHC @NYY L 6-12 GS-6 ,L 5.1 3 8 8 5 2 1 27 26 20 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 13.50 Games found: 11.
Jay Witasick and Steve Reed really did something special, huh? They allowed 8 earned runs in their games while facing less than 15 batters. Well, if you ever need someone to kick-off an October Conga Line, these two have the resumes to apply for the job.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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August 31st, 2008 at 12:58 am
Reed and Witasick performed this trick in relief. They allowed more runs than the starters did.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
The funny thing is that all 4 batters that Witasick got out were actually strike outs!