LOS ANGELES -- Every once in a while baseball will show us something that we have never seen before, which is one of the things that makes baseball great. On Monday night at Dodger Stadium, Brandon McCarthy had one of the most bizarre starts in major league history in the Dodgers' 6-5 win over the Mariners.
McCarthy allowed home runs to Nelson Cruz in the first inning, Cruz and Kyle Seager back-to-back in the fourth inning, then Dustin Ackley in the fifth.
"Two of the home runs (Seager and Ackley) were terrible pitches that you'd expect to be hit out.