Over his past 7 starts Hirki Kuroda has given up eight runs in 51 2/3 Innings of 1.39 ERA baseball and has still managed to only go 5-2.In Hiroki Kuroda's 4 years with the Los Angeles Dodgers he pitched 114 starts of 3.45 ERA ball and went 41-46 due to his lack of run support from the Dodgers. Then he came to the Yankees and the Yankees ability to score runs looked like it would help him rack up the wins. While Kuroda is only one shy of his career high in wins he has been doing it without much run support from the second best offense in baseball.
Kuroda has only received an average of 3.84 run support, which breaks down into 96 runs across 25 starts, compared to 501 total runs in the 96 games started by everyone else this year. That’s an average of 5.22 runs per game. For whatever reason, the Yankees are scoring one and a third fewer runs per game with Kuroda on the mound this season than they are with anyone else out there. In the last 12 years the Yankees the lowest run support a starting pitcher with 25 starts has received was Mike Mussina back in 2001 with 4.12 runs per game. Bartolo Colon received the club’s worst run support last season at 4.50 runs per game, but he went 8-10 with a 4 ERA.
This is just a fluke and means nothing and other than his start against King Felix he isn't losing some good starts as much as he is simply not getting the win in them. It be nice of the Yankees to score some runs as they haven't scored more than five runs in a start by Kuroda since July 18th when Kuroda tossed an abbreviated Shutout against Toronto. Kuroda's next start comes against the Indians and it would be a good time to give Kuroda a big safe win that he deserves.
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