I’m fully convinced I’m tethered in some way or another to Clarke Schmidt. This seems like the 13th game of the year where I’m covering one of Clarky’s starts, which makes me think I’m something of an authority on his season. After never making it more than six innings at any point in his career, he’s done so twice in his last three starts, and if you drop that horrible outing against Atlanta, Schmidt’s running a 3.70 ERA since the start of June.
In his last start against the Red Sox, back on August 20th, Schmidt tied his season high with eight strikeouts in 5.