Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Sabathia's Tenure Can Only Get Better...

...or at least it probably can't get any worse. From Jayson Stark: Sabathia allowed 13 baserunners on Opening Day -- and had zero strikeouts. Not only did he have no games like that last season, he hadn't had a 13-baserunner, zero-strikeout game in any of his previous 124 starts, dating back to the only other 13/0 game of his career -- on May 5, 2005, against the Twins.

This was Sabathia's 255th start in the big leagues. As The New York Times' Tyler Kepner tells us, never once, in Sabathia's previous 254 starts for the Indians or Brewers, had he thrown two wild pitches in an inning. He then ripped off two WPs in his first inning as a Yankee.

Wow...OK. Hopefully just first game jitters. The Wanger tonight to turn it around.

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