Houston — If you focused on all the traffic on the basepaths, if you calculate his WHIP, you missed the point of Mike Pelfrey’s start Friday night.
It wasn’t pretty. Not by anybody’s definition. But it was gritty.
“Sometimes you just have to find a way and he did a great job of finding a way tonight,” manager Brad Ausmus said.
On a night when three relievers were unavailable — Drew VerHagen, Mark Lowe and closer Francisco Rodriguez — Pelfrey found a way to survive through six hard-fought innings.
What he did was compete.