Posted by Zach Sanders on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 8:49 pm

A little bit of an in game update here during the Angels/Yankees game 5. A.J. Burnett gave up four runs in the first five batters, something that’s not easy to do. To take a look at the pitches that got him there, scroll down to the bottom of this post.

All of the pitches were down in the zone. Could there have been more bad luck for Burnett than bad pitching? Quite possible.

Was it just me, or was the Yankees defense out of position each time? Seems like their shifts, no matter how small they happened to be, were off.

 

Pitch F/x graph from BrooksBaseball.net, with a little tinkering by me.