No Joba - Phil

I was in bar / restaurant last night watching the Yankees / Red Sox game and I overheard the bartender asking a baseball trivia question to the 30 or so men sitting at the bar.

Anyone who answered the question correctly was to receive free drinks for the rest of the night. The rules were that you had to write the answer on a napkin and put it into a hat.

The question was:

In this decade, there was a New York Yankee 8th inning pitcher who was Mariano Rivera’s set-up guy. During 26 games he threw 31 innings, gave up only 20 hits and 8 walks for a WHIP of .903, gave up only 3 runs having an ERA of .097, had 39 strikeouts. Who is that Yankee player?

When the napkins were collected and the answers read there were NO WINNERS. Every single guy in the bar answered Joba Chamberlain.

The answer was Phil Hughes. Those are the stats from his last 26 appearances. - Paul Leume

Paul Leume is a MLB columnist from Montreal, Canada. Paul, a one-time beat writer covering the Montreal Expos for the Montreal Gazette is a proud grandfather of 3 girls and now spends his time offering his thoughts and prospective on Major League Baseball on a variety of blogs and websites throughout Al Gore’s internet.

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