1 inning major league player

[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Joe Cleary, Washington Senators 1945

He faced 9 batters

1 Strikeout
3 Walks
5 Hits
7 Earned runs

The strikeout was the only out he recorded so,

1/3 of an inning and a lifetime ERA of 189.00

I respect the others mentioned in this thread but old Joe Cleary is clear the worst.

You left out the best part of the cleary story: he was highly regarded, but got bombed so badly and so quickly that the Senators let their batting pitcher go in for him. It happened to be that pitcher's only game, too, even though he pitched decently. But that's probably because the second pitcher only had one leg, the other getting amputated when his fighter crashed in Germany in WWII