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Originally Posted by sago
Tom Seaver ainec.
The most harrowing part of the game was always the first inning, or if Tommy Hutton was in the lineup for the Phillies.
If anyone knows of a website that shows career pitching stats for each inning, I'd bet that Seaver's ERA after the 1st inning is significantly lower than his career ERA.
The same is probably true for Steve Carlton.
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Spot on sago. If you scroll to the bottom of the link you'll see that seaver's first inning ERA was 3.75 and for every other inning (including extra innings) his ERA was below 3.00.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...ear=Career&t=p