Paulino's Game Score in Friday's Game: 5

post from The Crawfish Boxes on 04 July 2009 12:09:00 PM. © The Crawfish Boxes

Paulino's Game Score in Friday's Game: 5

We know that Paulino had a terrible start against the Giants, but if you want to quantify it, the game score was 5. This was the worst game score by any Astros pitcher this year. Ironicallly, it followed Paulino's best game score of the year, 76 against Detroit. It's not the worst game score in the NL this year. Bronson Arroyo had a 0 game score. Jon Garland, Manny Parras, and Jason Marquis were the only other NL starting pitchers who had worse game scores this year. The FSN post game guys compared Paulino's early exit in this game to Jason Jennings' boo-filled exit in a start against the Padres in 2007. But it's not that bad. Jennings had a game score of -11 in that game. A key question is how ths start will affect Paulino's chances of staying in the rotation after the All Star Break.

Let me add one more facet to Paulino's stats. ERA: road 10.35; home 4.41. OPS against: road 1.162; home: .727.

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