No-Hitter? Who cares? It's still his fault...

There is a big hub-bub about the only hit in the Brewers-Pirates game yesterday that cost Sabathia a no-hitter. Was it an incorrect scoring decision? Was it a play he should have made on the nubber in front of the mound?
Maybe.
But I think something is getting lost here...Sabathia himself was the one who made the mistake! Maybe he should have made the play, but whether it was a no-hitter or not he still didn't get the job done on that. And yes, I understand that calling it an error shows how dominant his pitching was that the only way the other team could touch him was normal plays getting messed up. It is a measure of how great a pitcher is on a given day...which apparently doesn't have anything to do with fielding. Either way C.C. was incredible (for 11 starts now). An infield hit is basically the equivalent of saying the hitter got lucky. But in order to say the pitcher was as good as he could be, shouldn't that include not making errors?

This gets into the whole problem of unearned runs, at least indirectly. Does it bother anyone else that a pitcher can commit an error in a game and then not get charged for the runs it allows...that HE allows? How does that make sense? The point of an unearned run is not to charge the pitcher for runs he was not responsible for. If we are completely divorcing pitching from fielding, then I guess this makes sense. But we don't seem to have a problem with crediting the pitcher when a guy behind him turns in a web-gem to save a run...

Ok, just a soapbox.

Another question that has come up among friends is: At what point does Sabathia become a real choice for NL Cy Young?
I mean, he has thoroughly dominated his 11 starts, with 6 CGs and 9-0, barely allowing hits or runs...crazy. So, with, say...15 starts and 13-0? Webb is faltering lately...hmm...