Winless in five June starts with an 8.44 ERA and a .311/.386/.589 line against in 21 1⁄3 innings on the mound, Gio Gonzalez wrapped up the month with his roughest outing yet, going just one-plus innings in which he gave up three hits, five walks, and six runs in what ended up an 11-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.
“Just wasn’t my night. Pretty much that was it. Couldn’t get a strike,” Gonzalez said after the 62-pitch appearance which left him (6-5) on the season after 16 starts.
“I told him early on in the season — he was under control, he was using his legs a little bit better, he wasn’t thinking as much, and he was attacking the strike zone, it seems like his last couple outings, that’s gone by the wayside,” Davey Martinez told reporters after he’d pieced together the rest of the game following Gonzalez’s departure.