| "He pitched well enough to lose" - You hear this when a pitcher gives up like one earned run and loses 1-0, or two earned runs and loses 2-1 or something like that. Basically, it's a way of assigning blame to a pitcher who actually had a really really good game. Anybody with even a beginner's knowledge of baseball knows that giving up less than 2 earned runs these days is a very good performance from a starter. It's not his fault the offense couldn't score any runs.
This is also why win-loss records are EXTREMELY overrated, and why it's bullshit that Bartolo Colon beat Johan Santana for the AL Cy Young Award last year. |