HBT: Fernando Rodney has lowest ERA in history

Fernando Rodney had to go and ruin his perfect statistical match with Dennis Eckersley?s historic 1990 season by throwing a scoreless inning last night, moving past Eckersley for the best ERA of all time among pitchers with 50-plus innings.

Technically they both still have a 0.61 ERA, but Rodney has now allowed five earned runs in 74.1 innings while Eckersley allowed five earned runs in 73.1 innings. So it?s officially Rodney at 0.605 and Eckersley at 0.614.

Here?s what the rest of the leaderboard now looks like:

                     YEAR       IP      ERA
 Fernando Rodney      2012     74.1     0.61
 Dennis Eckersley     1990     73.1     0.61
 Rob Murphy           1986     50.1     0.72
 Earl Hamilton        1918     54.0     0.83
 Nick Maddox          1907     54.0     0.83

What a weird list and what a crazy season at age 35 for Rodney, who prior to this season had posted an ERA worse than 4.00 in five straight years and had more walks than strikeouts in 2011.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/02/fernando-rodney-has-the-lowest-era-in-baseball-history/related/

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