Glynn Throws QS to 4th Loss

It seems to be Ryan Glynn's lot it life to lose his Quality Starts. As mentioned before, he had 17 Quality Stars with the Fighters last season, but only a 7 wins and 14 losses record as Nippon Ham gave him virtually no run support. In his second start of this season for the BayStars on April 11, Glynn allowed 3 runs in 7 innings against Yakult for his first Quality Start of the year, only to lose 3-0, the 'Stars grounding into inning ending double plays in each of the first three innings to kill the only real threats they put up.

This afternoon at Yokohama Stadium sees Glynn's fate continue. Glynn threw 7 good innings. Sure, he allowed a few base runners, but never really any real threats. One mis-placed pitch saw Wada park the ball into the right field bleachers for a 2-run home run, but that was it. 2 runs over 7 innings, and Glynn did his part with his second Quality Start of the season.

The BayStars' bats, on the other hand, couldn't get anything going against Chen through the first 6 innings. That is to say, Chen threw 6 perfect innings against Yokohama. Leading off the bottom of the 7th inning, Ishikawa lined the ball into left field to become the first BayStars base runner of the afternoon. A sacrifice bunt got him to second, but no further.

The bottom of the 8th saw a pair of lead-off hits put runners at the corners with nobody out. While we later loaded the bases with two down, home plate was as far away as ever and Yokohama came out scoreless.

Runners at the corners with one out in the 9th saw a game ending double play end our hope of getting out of last place. (Yokohama was 1-half game behind the Dragons going into the game.) It doesn't look like Glynn can buy a run when he pitches well. Here is a list of Glynn's starts so far this season:

                 Desc   IP    H  HR   K  BB   R  ER   ERA     Offense
Apr  4 at CHU:   Loss   4.0   5   2   4   2   5   5  11.25 |  0 Runs on 3 Hits
Apr 11 vs YAK:   Loss   7.0   9   0   7   0   3   3   6.55 |  0 Runs on 6 Hits
Apr 18 vs HAN:   Loss   5.1   8   1   3   4   4   3   6.06 |  4 Runs on 10 Hits
Apr 26 at YAK:   Win    5.2   6   0   3   4   2   2   5.32 |  6 Runs on 8 Hits
May  3 vs CHU:   Loss   7.0   7   1   2   1   2   2   4.66 |  0 Runs on 5 Hits
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Totals:         1W 4L  29.0  35   4  19  11  16  15   4.66   10 Runs on 32 Hits

Here are the photos that I took during the game. I hope you enjoy them.

2009-05-03 CHU vs YOK