Kris Johnson has disastrous first major league start giving the Pirates no chance
The Pirates would have been better off forfeiting Sunday’s game vs the St. Louis Cardinals, that’s how bad SP Kris Johnson (0-2, 7.88 ERA) was, allowing 7 hits and 5 earned runs in just two innings. Johnson was a disaster giving the Pirates no chance as the Bucs trailed 5-0 after the third inning. Pittsburgh fell to the Cardinals 7-2. Apparently in the midst of a pennant race, the best the Pirates could come up with was Johnson in a spot start. “He didn’t come anywhere near having the command he did today that he had against the Diamondbacks,” Hurdle said of Johnson. The ideal pitcher to start would have been Jeanmar Gomez (3.11 ERA) but Hurdle felt Gomez wasn’t
Pirates have now won each of Jeanmar Gomez’s six starts
Jeanmar Gomez (2-0, 2.30 ERA) threw 7 shutout innings, allowing 3 hits, walking 1 and striking out 2 in the Pirates (32-20) 1-0 win over the Detroit Tigers (29-21) on Tuesday night. Gomez received a no decision and threw just 73 pitches through 7 innings. The Pirates have now won each of Gomez’s six starts. Gomez now has a 2.30 ERA and 1.07 WHIP in 43 innings after posting a 5.96 ERA and 1.42 WHIP in 90.2 innings for Cleveland in 2012.