QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 15, 2006 -> 10:14 PM)
This is the Cy Mays statement. X pitcher with an 8 ERA looks like Cy Young against us. Afterwards we talk about how great X pitcher threw, and how we dont understand how his era is north of 8. Take a look at the cuts our guys took tonight, and look at how they worked the count, or got themselves out with long looping swings trying to park the pitch. Any offense can make any crappy pitcher look like Cy Young if they go up there swinging for the Dan Ryan.
This was more a result of our offense not being patient and the lack of line drive swings vs the great runnynose hernandez.
Basically we saw a pitcher with a bad ERA and decided to pad the stats a bit, then went down a few runs and decided to pad the stats some more.
in no way am i saying this guy had a Cy Young winning outing tonight. i agree that the Sox batters helped him out A LOT tonight, however he did have some nice pitches working from what i saw, a la the JD strikeout late in the game when he used a very nice changeup to finish him off.