Your two pitchers in the Dodger game tonight:
James McDonald: 5 IP, 4 H, 5 ER, 4 BB, 2 K, 92 pitches, raised his ERA from 5.87 to 7.11. Gave up a load of hard-hit balls, got himself into trouble over and over again, generally looked bad. Made me start to have second thoughts about his fifth-starterhood.
Ramon Troncoso: 4 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 45 pitches, lowered his ERA from 2.35 to 1.54. Completely dominated, thoroughly shut down an offense that had been giving Dodger pitchers fits the previous 14 innings, got so many ground balls that all worms in the greater Colorado area are either dead or on life support.
So who got the win?
Mac, of course. And Tron got...nothing. (For some reason the box score credits him with a save, but I know better because saves only go to guys that enter the game to hard rock music in the 9th with their team up by 3 runs that somehow get three outs before dancing around like they clinched the Championship of the Universe. I assume the box score will soon be updated to reflect this fact.)
Congratulations on your first major-league win, JMac. May you take advantage of the terrible method that is in place for assigning wins to pitchers 299 more times before you retire.
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