Jeff Locke allowed 11 runs and saw his ERA climb from 4.28 to 5.38 in a train wreck of a start as the Bucs lost 11-5 to the Rockies Thursday.
Locke's performance mostly speaks for itself, but a couple caveats. First, it was Coors Field. Second, pitchers conventionally don't allow 11 runs because their managers usually take them out before they can. In this case, Locke had already allowed four runs in a miserably long first inning and two in the second when, in the fourth inning, DJ LeMahieu hammered a changeup with a runner on to give the Rockies their seventh and eighth runs.