Every reliever is going to have bad outings. Some even have a couple bad ones right in a row. “What’s wrong with Mariano?” Week became a joke/annual tradition every time Mariano Rivera had more than one bad appearance in a short sample. Every time the answer to what was wrong was nothing, as Rivera still ended up having a good season year after year.
No one will confuse Pat Clements’ career with Rivera, but he was on pace to have a decent season with the Yankees in 1987. He then just happened to go through arguably the worst stretch from a Yankees reliever ever.