Jered Weaver battled two elements yesterday: the weather (rain) and umpire Joe West. Despite the box score Weaver pitched extremely well through the first three innings, when the rain was light, throwing his fastball on the both sides of the plate and commanding his curveball and slider. The home run to Adam Jones was on a hanging changeup to Adam Jones, but after that the hits he allowed were all fluky in nature and one of the runs was aided by Josh Hamilton over running a ground ball. I have yet to mention Joe West’s inconsistent strike zone. There were at least four-five occasions where he called a ball when they were strikes. Even though his fastball sat 86-89 mph Weaver can still be an effective pitcher.

Of course I finally tout Julio Teheran in my starting pitcher rankings and he puts up a stinker. The first run came on a three base error by BJ Upton because he should have caught a ball that was hit at the warning track. The other runs, which came via the home run were both on hanging changeups. What stood out to me was the number of fly balls he allowed. Before the start he generated 44 percent ground balls and 36 percent fly balls, but the start in San Diego he allowed 55 percent fly balls. The fly balls looked more like it was part of the gameplan instead of errors on pitch location so I’m not overly worried. In general Teheran is a strike throwing machine, ranks tenth in the majors (among pitchers with at least five starts) in percentage of strikes thrown. He’s still a top 35-40 starting pitcher.