Those of you who’ve been faithfully watching this team since the John Means No-Hitter on May 5th, I salute you: it’s been really rough sledding.
The team has lost nine of eleven games in the two weeks since Means’s historic performance against Seattle, including the lefty’s last two starts (six innings of shutout ball against the Mets, and six innings with three runs allowed last night to Tampa). The staff ERA has gone from 4.11, two weeks ago, to 4.59 today.
Here are the bright spots, because, let’s face it, we need some. The team is scoring more runs, almost four per game now.