Nathan Eovaldi throws a complete game and Bobby Dalbec hits game-winning home run as Red Sox win 5-3

Nathan Eovaldi on May 28th, 2022 vs. the Baltimore Orioles. (Photo from MLB.com Video: https://www.mlb.com/gameday/orioles-vs-red-sox/2022/05/28/663257#game_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=663257)

Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi gave up three runs in nine innings as the Red Sox defeated the Baltimore Orioles 5-3 on Saturday afternoon.

Eovaldi pitched all nine innings and gave up seven hits, two earned runs, one walk and six strikeouts.

It was the first complete game of his Major League career.

Bobby Dalbec hit a solo home run to right-center field in the bottom of the sixth inning for the Red Sox, which gave Boston a 4-3 lead at the time and it ended up being the game-winning run.

For Baltimore, Robinson Chirinos hit a two-run home run over the left field wall scoring Ramon Urias and himself, to tie the game at three in the top of the fifth inning.

That proved to be the biggest mistake of the game for Eovaldi.

Urias doubled on a line drive to left field to start the inning.

The Orioles also scored one run in the first inning and Baltimore also had two singles in that inning as well.

Cedric Mullins singled on a ground ball to Boston shortstop Xander Bogaerts to start the game for Baltimore.

The Orioles' Trey Mancini reached based on a missed catch error by Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers, and Anthony Santander singled on a ground ball to Red Sox left fielder Alex Verdugo, scoring Mullins on the play.

Boston responded in the bottom of the second inning.

Alex Verdugo singled on a line drive to center field.

Christian Arroyo then doubled for the Red Sox on a line drive to center field and Alex Verdugo was tagged out by Orioles catcher at home plate on the relay throw from center fielder Cedric Mullins and second baseman Rougned Odor.

Franchy Cordero grounded out to Orioles third baseman Ramon Urias and Arroyo moved to third base on the play.

Kevin Plawecki walked and then Jackie Bradley Jr. doubled to left fielder Anthony Santander on a line drive, scoring Arroyo on the play and advancing Plawecki to third.

Kike Hernandez singled on a grounder to left field, which was deflected by Orioles third baseman Ramon Urias, scoring Plawecki and Bradley Jr. on the play.

Boston 3, Baltimore 1.

Rafael Devers doubled on a ground ball to right field and Hernandez moved to third base on the play.

J.D. Martinez struck out swinging for Boston and that ended the three-run second inning.

Baltimore scored two in the fifth to tie the game at three, and then Bobby Dalbec hit a home run in the sixth to make it a 4-3 Boston advantage.

In the bottom of the seventh with one out, Boston's J.D. Martinez walked. Xander Bogaerts then doubled on a line drive to center field, with Martinez advancing to third base on the play.

Alex Verdugo reached first base on a fielder's choice when he hit a ground ball to Orioles second baseman Rougned Odor who threw to shortstop Chris Owings and tagged Xander Bogaerts (who was most of the way to third base on the play).

It was obviously a costly baserunning mistake by Bogaerts and it was unselfish of him to be tagged out and allow Verdugo to reach base first base.

Christian Arroyo singled on a ground ball to the Orioles third baseman Urias, which allow Martinez to score and advanced Verdugo to second base.

Bobby Dalbec then lined out to the pitcher Bryan Baker who dropped the baseball threw to first baseman Trey Mancini to end the seventh inning.

Boston 5, Baltimore 3.

Eovaldi faced the minimum amount of batters in the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th innings.

So he only faced three batters in six of nine innings he pitched in.

With the win and the complete game, Eovaldi now has the second-most actual wins (2.741) of any Boston Red Sox pitcher this regular season. Michael Wacha is first with 3.407 and Nick PIvetta is in third-place with 2.444 actual wins.

In 46 Boston games this regular season, Eovaldi has pitched in 6.394 of them, the most on the Red Sox, while Nick PIvetta is second with 5.444 games played.

Eovaldi gave up three runs in a Boston win for the first time this regular season.

He gave up two earned runs in previous Red Sox wins on April 13th at the Detroit Tigers and on May 22nd vs. the Seattle Mariners.

This regular season, the Red Sox are now 4-6 when Eovaldi starts. Boston has now won two straight games when Eovaldi pitches.

Eovaldi's 3.77 ERA is now ranked ninth for Boston pitchers and his 4.40 true run average and 4.40 very true run average are ranked 11th for Red Sox pitchers in true run average and very true run average.

In wins, he has a 2.49 ERA and a 2.84 true run average and very true run average and he is ranked ninth in all of those categories.

Eovaldi has now given up eight runs, true runs and very true runs and seven earned runs in Boston victories, all ranked fourth-highest among Red Sox pitchers and starting pitchers.

He has also given up 28 runs, true runs and very true runs and 24 earned runs (all highest on the team).

Based on performance, Eovaldi should now be ranked as the 12th-best pitcher on the team.

He should now be ranked 9th on the Red Sox in terms of best winning percentage.

Eovaldi has now thrown 25 1/3 innings pitched in Boston wins and that is second-best on the team.

He has now thrown 57 1/3 innings pitched, the most on the team.

Eovaldi is likely to start his next game on June 3rd at the Oakland Athletics.

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NOTE: Very true run average and run average include all runs scored. So they are not like earned runs. Very true run average is more accurate than true run average because it doesn't blame a pitcher for allowing a baserunner to start on second base in extra innings. True run average blames the pitcher for allowing a baserunner to start on second base to start extra innings. Other than that, very true run average and true run average are more accurate and truthful than earned run average (earned runs) and run average (runs).

MORE NOTES: All statistics in the story above are from after the first game of the doubleheader on Saturday, May 28th, 2022 and before the second game on Saturday, May 28th, 2022. This story was posted on Saturday, May 28th, 2022.

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Actual won-lost records in the 2022 regular season for Boston Red Sox pitchers depending on the Boston Red Sox win/loss result for any one specific game

NEW: The "wins" are all games that the Boston Red Sox actually won. The "wins" are percentages of innings pitched for each pitcher. All of the percentages of innings pitched (of games the Red Sox actually won) are then added together to get "wins", which is what you see below. The "losses" can be thought of as the percentage of runs any one pitcher allowed the opposing team to score. These percentages of how many runs a pitcher allows in any one game to score are then added together for every game (and only of the games that the Red Sox actually lost) to get "losses". Pitchers who start any extra inning are blamed for allowing a baserunner to start the inning at second base (and any other additional bases they allow that baserunner to advance) if that baserunner eventually scores. The winning percentage is wins divided by wins plus losses.

Matt Barnes .556 wins and 2.133 losses (.207 win pct.)

Ryan Brasier .481 wins and 2.480 losses (.163 win pct.)

Kutter Crawford .481 wins and .993 losses (.327 win pct.)

Tyler Danish .778 wins and 1.135 losses (.407 win pct.)

Austin Davis .622 wins and .239 losses (.723 win pct.)

Jake Diekman 1.248 wins and 1.175 losses (.515 win pct.)

Nathan Eovaldi 2.741 wins and 2.876 losses (.488 win pct.)

Rich Hill 1.815 wins and 1.500 losses (.547 win pct.)

Tanner Houck 1.778 wins and 2.591 losses (.407 win pct.)

Nick Pivetta 2.444 wins and 2.944 losses (.454 win pct.)

Kevin Plawecki .000 wins and .000 losses (Plawecki hasn't given up any runs or partial runs yet, so that means he's perfect. He also has not appeared in a game yet as a pitcher that the Boston Red Sox actually won. 1.000 win pct.)

Hansel Robles 1.167 wins and 1.383 losses (.458 win pct.)

Hirokazu Sawamura .556 wins and 1.335 losses (.294 win pct.)

John Schreiber .889 wins and 0.167 losses (.842 win pct.)

Matt Strahm 1.000 wins and 0.354 losses (.738 win pct.)

Phillips Valdez 0.000 wins and .828 losses (.000 win pct.)

Michael Wacha 3.407 wins and .333 losses (.911 win pct.)

Garrett Whitlock 2.037 wins and 1.533 losses (.571 win pct.)

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Actual won-lost records in the 2022 regular season for Boston Red Sox pitchers not depending on whether the Boston Red Sox actually win any one specific game or not.

In other words, this tells the complete picture of their entire regular season (the good and the bad) of how many people the pitcher got out (innings pitched) and how many runs the pitcher truthfully gave up (which is more accurate than runs or even earned runs given up). So to make this more easy for people to understand, starting pitchers (or the previous pitcher) don't 100% get blamed for the inherited runner(s) that the reliever(s) (or the next pitcher to pitch) allows to score. The starter (or previous pitcher) will get 25%, 50% or 75% blame for giving up one run instead, for an inherited runner that eventually scores.

Also, a pitcher can get a partial win and a partial loss in the same game. So pitchers that throw more innings pitched are going to get a higher percentage of partial wins and pitchers who give up more runs are going to get a higher percentage of partial losses. So if one pitcher pitches a complete game he will get one win (regardless of the team's win/loss result) and if the pitcher's team actually loses that same game in which he was the only pitcher who pitched for his team, he will also get credit for one loss.

The only time any pitcher cannot take a loss or a partial loss is if the winning team doesn't give up any runs to the team they are playing.

Basically, this is truly giving credit where credit is due among pitchers only.

NEW: The "wins" are percentages of innings pitched for each game for each pitcher. All of the percentages of each game are then added together and the sum total of all percentages for each game are "wins" (whether the Red Sox actually won that specific game or not) and are what you see below. The "losses" can be thought of as the percentage of runs that any one pitcher allowed the opposing team to score for each game. All of the percentages of runs given up for each game are then added together and the sum total of all of those numbers are the "losses" and what you see below. The "losses" presented here are represented as the total number of potential losses that a pitcher could have if the Red Sox actually lost every single game in which a pitcher gave up a run(s). The winning percentage is wins divided by wins plus losses.

VERY FINAL NOTE: To not confuse people, pitchers do get blamed for allowing an opposing baserunner to start any extra inning at second base. When I have presented this detailed information (as you see below) this entire regular season (so far), I have always blamed the pitcher for allowing an opposing baserunner to start any extra inning at second base.

Matt Barnes 1.680 wins and 2.717 losses (.382 win pct.) 15 innings pitched

Ryan Brasier 1.616 wins and 3.813 losses (.298 win pct.) 14 1/3 innings pitched

Kutter Crawford 1.162 wins and 1.314 losses (.469 win pct.) 10 2/3 innings pitched

Tyler Danish 1.807 wins and 1.135 losses (.614 win pct.) 16 innings pitched

Austin Davis 2.158 wins and .525 losses (.804 win pct.) 19 1/3 innings pitched

Jake Diekman 1.800 wins and 1.699 losses (.515 win pct.) 16 1/3 innings pitched

Nathan Eovaldi 6.394 wins and 5.661 losses (.530 win pct.) 57 1/3 innings pitched

Rich Hill 4.014 wins and 4.167 losses (.491 win pct.) 35 innings pitched

Tanner Houck 3.847 wins and 3.174 losses (.548 win pct.) 33 2/3 innings pitched

Nick Pivetta 5.444 wins and 5.944 losses (.478 win pct.) 48 2/3 innings pitched

Kevin Plawecki .125 wins and .000 losses (Plawecki hasn't given up any runs or partial runs yet, so that means he's perfect. He also has not appeared in a game yet as a pitcher that the Boston Red Sox actually won. 1.000 win pct.) 1 inning pitched

Hansel Robles 1.842 wins and 2.883 losses (.390 win pct.) 17 innings pitched

Hirokazu Sawamura 1.679 wins and 1.496 losses (.529 win pct.) 15 innings pitched

John Schreiber 1.424 wins and 0.500 losses (.740 win pct.) 12 2/3 innings pitched

Matt Strahm 1.628 wins and 0.979 losses (.624 win pct.) 14 2/3 innings pitched

Phillips Valdez 1.204 wins and 0.828 losses (.593 win pct.) 10 1/3 innings pitched

Michael Wacha 3.949 wins and 3.381 losses (.539 win pct.) 35 innings pitched

Garrett Whitlock 4.226 wins and 3.783 losses (.528 win pct.) 38 2/3 innings pitched

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Wins, Losses, Holds, Blown Saves and Saves that everybody understands

Matt Barnes 0-3 Blown Saves 1 Saves 2

Ryan Brasier 0-2, Holds 4, Blown Saves 2

Kutter Crawford 1-1