Just For Starters: Breaking Down Shane McClanahan's Start Against Boston on Sunday
Updated 5:30 p.m. ET
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Shane McClanahan got dinged a bit on his first few pitches, but he settled down on Sunday and turned in another great pitching performance for the Tampa Bay Rays.
He pitched seven innings, allowing just those two first-inning runs. It was the longest outing of the year for any Rays starter and the Rays won 5-2. McClanahan got the win, the first Rays starter to pick up a win through the first 16 games.
Here is a breakdown of McClanahan's day, and the cumulative numbers of the Rays starting staff this season:
Rays' Starters By The Numbers
- Starter: Shane McClanahan
- Game: Sunday vs. Boston Red Sox
- Decision: Got the win, and is now 1-1 on the season
- Team result: Rays won 5-2, and are now 9-7 on the season
- Innings pitched: 7.0
- Total pitches: 86
- Strikes: 64
- Runs allowed: 2
- Earned runs: 2
- Hits allowed: 6
- Walks allowed: 0
- Total strikeouts: 7
- Status upon departure: Shane McClanahan pitched through the seventh inning was holding on to a 4-2 lead. The Rays tacked on in the bottom of the inning. McClanahan was replaced by
- The skinny: After that first-inning hiccup, McClanahan was great once again. He's been good in every start, to be honest.
Season Totals for Rays Starters
- Starters: Shane McClanahan (4), Drew Rasmussen (3), Corey Kluber
(3), Luis Patino, Tommy Romero, Josh Fleming - Games: 13 (3 openers, not included in numbers)
- Decisions: 1-5 thru Sunday
- Team result: 9-7 thru Sunday
- Innings pitched (avg.): 54.1/4.1
- - Season high innings: 7.0, Shane McClanahan (April 24)
- - Season low innings: 2/3, Luis Patino (April 11)
- Total pitches (avg.): 910/70.0
- - Season high pitches: 89, Corey Kluber (April 22)
- - Season low pitches: 13, Luis Patino (April 11)
- Strikes (avg.): 604/46.7
- Total strikeouts (avg.): 59/4.5
- - Season high strikeouts: 9, Shane McClanahan (April 18)
- Runs allowed (avg.): 29/2.2
- Earned runs (avg.): 26/2.0
- Hits allowed (avg.): 56/4.3
- - Season most hits allowed: 11, Corey Kluber (April 22)
- Walks allowed (avg.): 19/1.4
- Starter ERA: 4:31
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.