Fernando Rodney had to go and ruin his perfect statistical match with Dennis Eckersley’s historic 1990 season by throwing a scoreless inning last night, moving past Eckersley for the best ERA of all time among pitchers with 50-plus innings.
Technically they both still have a 0.61 ERA, but Rodney has now allowed five earned runs in 74.1 innings while Eckersley allowed five earned runs in 73.1 innings. So it’s officially Rodney at 0.605 and Eckersley at 0.614.
Here’s what the rest of the leaderboard now looks like:
YEAR IP ERA
Fernando Rodney 2012 74.1 0.61
Dennis Eckersley 1990 73.1 0.61
Rob Murphy 1986 50.1 0.72
Earl Hamilton 1918 54.0 0.83
Nick Maddox 1907 54.0 0.83
What a weird list and what a crazy season at age 35 for Rodney, who prior to this season had posted an ERA worse than 4.00 in five straight years and had more walks than strikeouts in 2011.
