Inauspicious Debuts
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As I write this, the Angles trail Oakland 4-0 in the second inning. After a nice start, Nick Adenhart, making his major league debut, gave up a hit, four walks, and another hit, which led to those four runs.
It's times like these I like to recall Ervin Santana's major league debut. On May 17, 2005, Ervin Santana faced the Cleveland Indians in Cleveland. He gave up a triple to Grady Sizemore,
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Published 5/2/2008 by Rev Halofan at Halos Heaven: Front Page Posts
... No team in baseball could conceivably expect its 3 lowest totem pole relievers to eat up 8 innings unscathed - throw in anticipating perfection from the 5th starter as a delusion a reasonable team would avoid (and as L.A. Seitz reminds us all , we are really talking about the Angels' 7th starter). But fans expect it. Counting our currently vague 5th starter spot, we are talking about inadequacies in the 4 least important pitching positions in baseball. ...
