A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

he always seemed like a good dude--surprised at how happy i am for him

that was so fucking awesome

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same! if someone's gonna no hit the cards i'm glad it's johan.

That was great, but, as much as I hate to say it, I've watched that replay three times...I guess he's not close to the first guy to catch a break. It'll be forgotten, and yeah, he's come through a lot.

Wasn't one of Halladay's a total gift?

Of course I'm going to tomorrow's game.

134 pitches. He had better finish the season.

‏@Kevin_Goldstein
I was on a draft call and missed the no-hit party. Any Debbie Downers complain about the pitch count?

yeah, KG likes human umpires too, he's not right all the time.

rip jimmy qualls

I don't remember the Near Perfect Game, but I do remember Leron Lee and Joe Wallis.

holy shit

yeah i remember the wallis one

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1154665/fanrun.gif

lollll

Can I find Santana's game scores for the last few seasons anywhere? I'm thinking this game wasn't among his top 5 Mets starts.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=santajo02&t=p&year=2012
and from there to season by season gamelogs for previous years. The no-hitter was a 90, his best as a Met.

Thanks. Yeah, just barely -- he had an 88, two 87s (including the next-to-last game of '08), and an 86.

86 being his last start!

High Heat Stats had a pretty detailed breakdown of that and other stuff pertaining to the no-hitter:

http://www.highheatstats.com/2012/06/10-amazin-mets-fact-about-johan-santanas-no-hitter/#more-3847

43rd-highest Game Score for a Mets starting pitcher is illuminating.

Also, Rob Gardner (???) going 15 innings in '65!

also, at Saturday's BP event at Citi Field, they had this guy from Bloomberg Sports on the panel, who just last week evaluated the chances of the Mets having such a no-hitter drought as 0.32%:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=17172

Nice timing.

A couple of days after the no-hitter, a guy at Slate responded to the Bloomberg piece:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/06/02/mets_no_hitter_drought_finally_broken_by_johan_santana_how_unlikely_was_the_streak_.html

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crazy timing on that article, I didn't notice when it was posted until I finished reading it

Where can I find a ranking of the best pitching game scores (leaguewide) for the season? I couldn't find such a thing at baseball-reference's Pitching Leaders page.

Never mind, found it.

jarrod parker (!) is through seven against the rangers (!)

already at 107 pitches tho

i mean, he's 23 years old -- they have to pull him, right

just turned this on

they'll prob just pray for him to give up a hit

also good lord there is nobody in the stands

all the a's fans were watching the draft tonight

man, why is this so easy to do now

107 pitches, 3 walks; we're entering the era of No-Hittin' Ugly.

well that was fun

a's management breathes a sigh of relief

:( i had him benched in my other league!

Amazingly, they didn't pull him after the leadoff hit--and then he gets out of the inning with two more pitches.

they didn't have anyone warming up! i guess that's part of the rules on jinxing?

That had never occurred to me...bizarre situation: young pitcher way past his pitch count, huge lead, no-hitter in progress. I would have had someone warming up out of view--in the parking lot, maybe, or way up high in an empty sky-deck section.

About 18 Seattle pitchers vs. L.A.

Millwood was pitching a super-efficient game until he injured his groin...somehow. And then the entire Seattle bullpen may be used for finishing it.

~Worried~

Six guys, geez. And maybe another missed call.

Safeco Field: home of the disputed no-hitter

Still, I feel like Millwood was doing well enough to probably have finished it himself if his groin was right, so good for them.

Congratulations, guy who retired one hitter and walked two hitters during the seventh. You definitely earned the win.

haha I think this game just became Exhibit A in any discussion about why pitcher wins are overrated.

Cain perfect thru 7 w/ a 10-0 lead

i have been watching this on delay

turned on the Dodgers game and Vin is saying it's perfect

so far

thru 8

so fun