Ervin Santana made it through 1/3 of an inning and gave up 5 runs. So his ERA for the game would be 135.00. Yup One hundred and thirty five runs. Take that Texas.Santana's outing was tied for the shortest of his career. Last Aug. 10 at Cleveland, he recorded an out before the second batter lined a hit off his left knee and forced him from the game.
He has allowed at least five earned runs nine times in 22 starts. Before this meltdown, he had allowed just two earned run in 14 innings while going 2-0 against Seattle.
Fortunately, Jeff Weaver pitched like he did for us, Weaver allowed eight hits and the five runs in 4 1/3 innings. The Angels have scored 11 runs and have four home runs in 8 1/3 innings in Weaver's last two starts against them. He is 0-2 with an 11.12 ERA in three starts against his former team this season.
Santana spotted the Mariners a five-run advantage, but the Angels came storming back for a 10-6 triumph, extending their American League West lead to four games over Seattle.The comeback climaxed in the eighth when Gary Matthews walked, stole second and scored on Kendry Morales' drive to left. Reggie Willits later walked with two outs, and Orlando Cabrera singled. The Mariners brought Rick White in to face Vladimir Guerrero, and Guerrero slammed his two-run single to left.
Guerrero is batting .509 this season against the Mariners and has 62 RBIs in 67 games against them in his career.
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Every time I read about somebody's extraordinary ERA, I remember Ryan Drese's first outing in 2003, April 12, in which he surrendered five runs while making only one out (this on a strikeout). One of those runs scored on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch. I was at Stick And Stein in El Segundo, watching the game on TV at the bar; the game had a kind of hypnotic effect, because Drese was taking f-o-r-e-v-e-r to complete his pitches, and seemingly nothing he did could stop the bleeding. Buck Showalter finally called in Reynaldo Garcia, a 4-A type whose career in the majors was, to put it charitably, brief. Not one of the pitchers the Rangers used went unscored-against. It was the Rangers' fourth game of the season, and already they looked like division punching bags.
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