The Halladay Corollary

When last we left Roy Halladay, he was suffering the first loss of his career in which he was pitching with a lead in the ninth inning. Shortly thereafter, Phillies nation was aghast at his 7.74 ERA in his 2011 ninth innings.

Now, because baseball-reference has it so easily available, we present his inning-by-inning career ERA and opponet's batting average. Note that his second and ninth innings have by far the best ERA: