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- Updated: July 23, 2016
HOUSTON — Matt Shoemaker has started 12 times since May 21. Ten times he completed at least six innings and allowed no more than two runs while still in the game. And on nine occasions his offense was held to no more than three runs until he came out.
Shoemaker has a 2.39 ERA in that stretch, and somehow his record is only 3-5.
“One of those things,” Shoemaker said after the Angels’ 2-1 defeat at Minute Maid Park on Friday night. “You’re not going to change anything. You’re going to go out there and keep pitching the way you’re pitching, and hopefully pitch better.”
Shoemaker couldn’t have pitched much better than he did against the surging Astros, who are now a Major League-best 35-16 since May 23.
Through six innings, the Astros’ only run against him came on a triple by Preston Tucker and an ensuing single, past a drawn-in infield, by Jason Castro. Their second run came in the seventh, with two outs, runners on the corners and Shoemaker watching from the bench. Immediately after Shoemaker walked Castro and was pulled, Joe Smith gave up a first-pitch RBI single to George Springer.
The Angels took the field averaging a Major League-best 6.9 runs per game in July, but …
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