Just For Starters: Breaking Down Drew Rasmussen's Stellar Performance Against A's
OAKLAND, Calif. — Drew Rasmussen put together a second straight great start on Monday night for the Tampa Bay Rays. He allowed just one run and one hit in five innings to help the Rays kick off a 10-game West Coast road trip in style.
The performance followed up Wednesday's great start, when he pitched six scoreless innings and allowed only two hits in a win against Seattle.
Here is a breakdown of Rasmussen's night on Monday, and the cumulative numbers of the Rays starting staff this season:
Rays' Starters By The Numbers
- Starter: Drew Rasmussen
- Game: Monday (May 2) at Oakland Athletics
- Decision: Won, to raise his record to 2-1.
- Team result: Won 6-1, to go to 13-10 on the season.
- Innings pitched: 5.0
- Total pitches: 83
- Strikes: 51
- Runs allowed: 1
- Earned runs: 1
- Hits allowed: 1
- Walks allowed: 1
- Total strikeouts: 3
- Status upon departure: Drew Rasmussen left after pitching five innings. He was replaced by Jason Adam to start the bottom of the sixth. He left with a 6-1 lead.
- The skinny: That's back-to-back great outings for Rasmussen, who threw six scoreless on Wednesday and now comes back with a great five-inning outing, allowing just one hit, and one one. Probably still throwing too many pitches, but it's a mild complaint. He's been nasty these last two outings.
Season Totals for Rays Starters
- Starters: Shane McClanahan (5), Drew Rasmussen (5), Corey Kluber
(4), Josh Fleming (2), Luis Patino, Tommy Romero, - Games: 18 (5 openers, not included in numbers)
- Decisions: 3-7 thru Sunday
- Team result: 12-10 thru Sunday
- Innings pitched (avg.): 80.0/4.4
- - Season high innings: 7.0, Shane McClanahan (April 24)
- - Season low innings: 2/3, Luis Patino (April 11)
- Total pitches (avg.): 1,315/73.06
- - Season high pitches: 90, Shane McClanahan (April 30)
- - Season low pitches: 13, Luis Patino (April 11)
- Total strikeouts (avg.): 89/4.9
- - Season high strikeouts: 11, Shane McClanahan (April 30)
- Runs allowed (avg.): 40/2.2
- Earned runs (avg.): 36/2.0
- Hits allowed (avg.): 69/3.8
- - Season most hits allowed: 11, Corey Kluber (April 22)
- Walks allowed (avg.): 26/1.3
- Starter ERA: 4.05
Tom Brew is the publisher of Inside The Rays, and has been with the Sports Illustrated/FanNation network for three years. He is an award-winning writer and editor who has spent most of his four-decade career at the Tampa Bay Times, Indianapolis Star and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has written four books.