sometimes life just isn't fair....

So I'm watching Jake Peavy spin a gem saturday night (or rather sunday morning) at Petco Park vs the offensively challenged Giants. Peavy's had a great season, a terrific ERA, more than a strikeout per inning pitched, but he's got no run support all year. Same goes for the rest of the Padres starters. And tonight's no different. Peavy's thrown 6 shutout innings. But here's the unfair part. So has Barry Zito. Zito, by all standards, has had an awful year, marred by inconsistency and just getting hammered often. But on this night, he's also thrown 6 shutout innings. The top of the 7th roles around, and Peavy gives up a cheap single to left off the bat of Fred Lewis, who did a good job taking the ball the other way. Lewis then stole second. Bengie Molina then hit a Seeing Eye Single through the right side on a tough pitch from Peavy and Lewis scored. The Padres then couldn't get anything off Zito through 8 innings and Brian Wilson closed the door, and the Giants won 2-0. Peavy's line, 7IP, 5 hits, 1 run, 1 ER, 0BB and 7 K's, lowering his season ERA to 2.59. Now tell me how fair that is? Tell me how fair Peavy's 8-7 record is this year? Or his 1.12 WHIP? Or the fact that he hasn't given up more than 4 runs in one start this year? Or that 14 of his 19 starts have been quality starts? Or how the Padres have scored just 72 runs in his starts? That's an average of about 3.7 runs per game. See how unfair this game is? If Peavy had say, another run on average per start, he might have 11/12 wins by now and might be on his way to another Cy Young. Instead, it's just gonna go down as a great year if you can read between the lines. If you can't and just look at the won/loss then he's just another guy.