I just want to get this right -- Fister blew his chance for a win because he gave up 2 runs?!? Teams would do cartwheels if everytime a starter went to the mound, they only gave up 2 runs for the game.Mike, Had Fister given up fewer than 3 runs in the 6th inning, he may have won. He didn't. For all his talent, he let something distract him and he blew an opportunity the first time he had a lead... That is not an indictment of his ability, just his performance.
And the reason Fister hasn't won a game this season -- some of it isn't due to the lack of run support -- ALL of it is due to the lack of run support. He has given up 0, 0, 1, 3, 2 in his 5 starts.
I said it yesterday on this message board -- Detroit, as a whole, has not been able to get a hit when they needed it. They stranded 29 runners in a 3 game series. They batted .107 with RISP (3 for 29) for the series. It is not like it is just this series they have been doing this either.
Detroit was hitting .217 with RISP and 2 outs coming into this series and .147 with the bases loaded.
Also -- as I said yesterday -- when they called ball 4 a strike with the bases loaded to Cabrera -- they can't buy a break.
Detroit, as a whole, has not been able to get a hit when they needed it.And they couldn't get a pitch when they needed it, either.
Mike, Had Fister given up fewer than 3 runs in the 6th inning, he may have won. He didn't. For all his talent, he let something distract him and he blew an opportunity the first time he had a lead... That is not an indictment of his ability, just his performance.scelerat,
He is a pitcher. You either need to step back from the statistics, or learn to quantify more. Statistics are only an abstract of performance, they don't perfectly describe it.
Sorry, I can't explain it to you any other way. Teams only do cartwheels when they win.