Well, if you love fairy tales, starting pitcher AJ Blubaugh’s MLB debut was not that. Not unless you consider allowing seven runs in four innings a happy ending.
But it wasn’t really as bad as those raw numbers indicate. He started his career with a clean first inning, striking out two. He made a mistake in the second inning, giving up a two-run homer to Colt Keith, but it was the third inning that Blubaugh, but especially Jeremy Pena, would like to forget.
Blubaugh gave up five runs that inning, all unearned, thanks to an error by Pena that turned a double play into runners on first and third.