There was a heavy reliance by head coach Egay de los Reyes on Darwin de la Calzada during the 2011 Southeast Asian Games. Out of the total 43 innings pitched by the Philippine team de la Calzada pitched 21 innings. He pitched two complete games. One in the first game against Thailand. Then the Gold Medal game against Indonesia. He also pitched 3 innings against Indonesia in the last pool game.
To de los Reyes and the rest of the pitching staff it is not fair to say there was too much reliance on de la Calzada. The rest of the pitching staff also performed very well. Ironically only de la Calzada allowed runs in the competition- 2 in the first game against Thailand. After that no mre runs were scored.
If there was one big advantage for the Philippines in the competition it was the depth of pitching that was brought to Palembang. A total of six pitchers saw action for the Philippines. Charlie Labrador and Jonjon Robles pitched in the first game against Indonesia. Eighteen year old right hander Carlos Munoz, Vladimir Equia and Labrador pitched a combined one hitter against Vietnam. Romeo Jasmin, Robles and Labrador held Malaysia to no runs.
Pitching highlighted the advanced status of Philippine baseball against its regional rivals.
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