Going into Monday night’s start Phil Hughes had a good thing going. In his previous four games he had a 2.81 ERA, had been pitching deeper into games, and was showing more pitch-ability than usual. It didn’t last very long though as he was lit up for six earned runs against the Angels over just 5.1 innings. It was a rough outing. He gave up four runs in the 1st after the Yankees gave him a 3-0 lead in the top of the inning. After that he got lucky as four players hit outs deep to the warning track leading up to 5th inning homer by Mike Trout. That homer was the 12th Hughes has given up this season and kept his streak of giving up at least one per game. A streak that many people have said is a product at least partially of bad luck, but last night Hughes was lucky to have only given up the one. At his current pace he would give up 47 homers over 200 innings. The poor start gives pause to what Hughes’ four game streak actually was. On the surface, it was impressiv…
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Bad outing ruins Phil Hughes’ revival
