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Perhaps Brendan Ryan owes the rest of baseball an apology.
The Seattle Mariners shortstop was like the hero in a Hollywood thriller with Yu Darvish the hapless villain, dangling from a ledge by his long fingers.
The Texas Rangers' right-hander's first major league start was against the Mariners on April 9th and about 10 minutes into it an entire off-season of hype was lying in shards in the batter's box.
The Mariners - hardly the 1927 Yankees - had sent eight men to the plate in the first inning and four had crossed. The bases were loaded and there was just one out. Darvish's ERA at the moment was a swollen 109.1.
Darvish, whose career numbers in Japan were Ruthian (or Gretzky-like) in their distance from his closest competition, was poised for a...
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