Trevor Rosenthal epitomizes the Washington Nationals’ bullpen woes so far this year.
Rosenthal made his third appearance of 2019 Wednesday against the Philadelphia Phillies and once again failed to get a single batter out.
Thus, his ERA of infinity stayed intact. Seriously.
As most baseball fans know, innings pitched are measured by how many outs a pitcher gets. When that number is zero, the stat is technically 0.0 innings. And when the earned run average calculation tries to divide a number of earned runs over zero innings, it can’t spit out a real answer.