A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

not only do they get no-hit today but with a Dodger win they will be in last place in the NL West.

oh joy.

were you in a coma the last 3 years?

Brian Kenny is pretty much insufferable, huh?

Brian Kenny ‏@MrBrianKenny 2m
AJ Burnett had no-hitter w/10bb's, 1hbp. History? #brainwashed

Brian Kenny ‏@MrBrianKenny 45m
I blame the mainstream media: Headlines of "12-0!" "No-hitter!" So stuck in the past. Think for yourselves! Stop being sheep!

You're stupid! Think like me for yourself!

I like David Schoenfield's advice: "Where to begin? How about with this: No-hitters never get old and if you hear someone saying there are too many of them these days, just walk away. This person is not your friend."

(Even though there probably are too many of them these days...)

Historically, it seems that there is around 2 to 4 no hitters per year. So as it stands, this season wouldn't have too many.

To be fair, last year is freaky.

lol brian kenny is adorable

"Where were YOU when the AL wOBA leader was dethroned? Watching a replay of Matt Kemp's circus catch (after a bad jump)?" #thinkbaseball

Brian Kenny‏@MrBrianKenny

For accuracy: Lincecum: 5 bases allowed, 148 pitches, 13k's.
Grienke: 3 bases allowed, 110 pitches, 9 k's.
#dontbuzzkillthemessenger

he threw 148 pitches?!

Brian Kenny really does sound like a piece of work...Why aren't there any headlines this morning about Zack Greinke having thrown the 19,753rd Very Well Pitched Game in History?

Detroit guy who does this every few months (through 6).

Phil Coke

lol

I like how you get the Kate Upton ad on Gameday between innings. (If it were someone other than Verlander pitching, I'd say "I like how you get the Kate Upton ad on Gameday between innings.")

are we going to do this again so quick?

i guess not, missed that hit.

Why aren't there any headlines this morning about Zack Greinke having thrown the 19,753rd Very Well Pitched Game in History?

because it wasn't MAGICAL

(like having good gloves in the right places kinda magic)

The media and fans are forever falling for that whole magic thing. Thompson, Mazeroski, and Carter hit well-timed home runs and everybody makes a big deal about it.

:p

If those Sandoval and Pence plays don't make it clear that a team getting no hits is almost always the doing of the fielders...

No hitters are still rare and fun. It's kind of cool that Sandoval and Pence can share in it.

oh god, if Bedard no-hits the Mariners...

However it does seem possible that he could do it and still lose the game.

Ms have four runs and one hit.

this one game really epitomizes erik bedard's career

erik bedard was released by the pirates a year ago. that is not something that has happened to too many decent players in living memory

timmeh: 8 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 1 BB, 8 K, 108 pitches

darvish perfect through five in houston

10 K

watching it, lots of fun!

questionable ball three leads to a walk, a.j. ejected lol

0 hits, 12Ks through 7 IP

13 K, 2 innings left.

welp

lol at that strike three on dominguez tho

Its ok Yu, you will get to play the Astros often.

mookie you are so bad at this!

yu_yu

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Drone the both of them.

okay it's aj, and both he and yu started walking off after ball three, and you ~can't argue balls and strikes~, but aj was headed toward the mound and kulpa went after him

come on, blue

Is it just me or are the umps unnecessarily aggressive this year?

JJ Hoover has been a witch out of the bullpen for the Reds for the past couple months.

I kinda like the Reds pitching if they get to the playoffs with their top starters and the bullpen as is, especially considering Cingrani will be a nasty additional arm to have in the pen (most likely).

Yusmeiro Petit (who truthfully I'd never heard of) through 8--doing exceptionally well.

how many pitchers have pitched this exceptionally well in a game out of the stretch?

oh man you have to catch that

like you are not making the playoffs anyway, you dive for that and if it gets by you for three bases so be it

Could that possibly be more heartbreaking? Umpire was all over the place--squeezed him on a couple of pitches, gave him two, and I swear that was a 2-2 on Chavez.

2-2 strike, that should say.