Sometimes baseball sucks with it's record keeping

Alex Cobb pitches 8 shut out innings masterfully and inexplicably gets pulled for the 9th inning for the Ray's "closer" Alex Colome'. Colome' has been blowing major donkey balls this month and blown his last two save opportunities.

Tonight was his 3d. He plunks the first batter he faces in the head and 9 pitches later, the score is 2-2.

He gets out of the jam thanks to some great plays in the outfield, the Rays put up 2 in the top of the 10th and bring in Tommy Hunter to close this time.

1-2-3 go the Pirates and Alex effin Colome' gets the win even though he's given up SEVEN ERs in the last 2.1 innings he's pitched and blew the great game Cobb threw tonight. Shame.

Posted: 06/27/2017 at 10:20PM

Sometimes baseball sucks with it's record keeping -- HokieinTampa 06/27/2017 10:20PM

Still, every W on a closer's record can be seen as a BS. ** -- Freddyburg Hokie 06/28/2017 12:19PM

Agree. And there are closers that have a 1-2 record at the end of the yr. -- HokieinTampa 06/28/2017 12:59PM

I couldn't agree more, and this has nothing to do with knowing how -- PhotoHokieNC 06/28/2017 07:40AM

Just one minor thing ... -- Nova Hokie 95 06/28/2017 08:37AM

He was the pitcher of record when lead run scored. -- BobG 06/27/2017 10:34PM

I do. And it sucks. ** -- HokieinTampa 06/27/2017 10:41PM

Have any suggestions? -- BobG 06/27/2017 11:15PM

Sure, apply common sense to the scorekeeping for cases like this. -- HokieinTampa 06/28/2017 06:56AM

His ERA dropped 32 points and he got a QS. ** -- vtbones 06/28/2017 08:51AM

But once the game is tied, the game changes. -- BobG 06/28/2017 07:41AM

I liked you better when you just said "Nope" -- HokieinTampa 06/28/2017 07:46AM

Yeah, nothing like changing the context AND -- PhotoHokieNC 06/28/2017 07:50AM

Lookingat bigger picture here -- BobG 06/28/2017 07:59AM

Re: Lookingat bigger picture here -- Hokies1215 06/28/2017 08:51AM

Correct re: 5 innings. Sorry. ** -- BobG 06/28/2017 09:44AM

If we had time and energy we could ID an infinite number of scenarios -- PhotoHokieNC 06/28/2017 08:12AM

He did have a great point. It's a rule, but a flaw. ** -- BobG 06/28/2017 08:15AM

My ENTIRE point was that sometimes baseball sucks with it's record keeping. -- HokieinTampa 06/28/2017 08:35AM

That wasn't the point. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 06/28/2017 07:42AM

Wait- now we're trying to make sense here? ** -- BobG 06/28/2017 07:56AM

Sorry. I lost my head. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 06/28/2017 08:13AM

An error is a judgement call. Not so much for the pitcher stats. ** -- 48zip 06/28/2017 07:08AM

Understood and we're getting away from the original vent which is -- HokieinTampa 06/28/2017 07:17AM

Sometimes baseball sucks with it's record keeping

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