Judging middle relievers on ERA is really tough. In fact, sometimes it's entirely misleading. Much of the time a reliever entering the game in the fifth, sixth or seventh innings does so with runners on base. If he allows those runs to score, they are charged to the previous pitcher(s) from that frame. So a guy could enter the game with two outs and the bases loaded, allow a bases-clearing triple before getting out of the inning, and his box score would show zero earned runs in 1/3 of an inning -- but it was actually an objectively terrible outing.
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