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The score by innings against Jeff Weaver in his 11 starts this season:
001 000 0xx (April 7 vs. San Diego)
000 6xx xxx (April 13 at San Diego)
100 103 xxx (April 18 at San Francisco)
300 000 02x (April 24 vs. San Francisco)
012 000 0xx (April 29 vs. New York)
200 000 0xx (May 5 at Florida)
010 001 00x (May 11 vs. Chicago)
400 00x xxx (May 16 vs. Cincinnati)
000 000 03x (May 22 at Atlanta)
200 000 0xx (May 27 at Milwaukee)
100 000 3xx (June 1 vs. Milwakee)
The total:
(13)23 704 35x
Of the 37 runs Weaver has allowed this season, more than a third have come in the first inning. Put another way, in 11 starts this season, Weaver has allowed only 24 runs after the first inning.
He allowed six runs in the fourth inning of his second start. Since then, he has allowed a grand total of five runs in innings 2-5 combined. In his past eight starts, he has allowed only one run in the middle innings - an ERA of 0.39.
I leave it to you to determine whether Weaver's first-inning woes constitute a disturbing fluke or disturbing trend. Either way, they're disturbing, the roadblock to what would otherwise be a stellar season.
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