A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

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

http://cdn3.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/17773185/aj_kulpa.0_standard_709.0.png

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7408/9495015845_59ed10053d_o.gif

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.

i remember yusmeiro petit! he used to be a pretty big prospect iirc. his other starts this year have also looked quite pretty

http://simlb.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/yusmeiro-petit-near-perfect-game-chavez-hit-pence.gif?w=450&h=253

I want to see that 2-2 pitch again--sure looked good last night.

You can see the 2-2 pitch around 1:40 of this clip:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130907&content_id=59829800&vkey=news_sf&c_id=sf

Okay, it was a ball--so close. The umpire could have given it to him...great job by Chavez in holding up.

yeah i thought the 2-2 pitch was a ball, but the opening pitch if i remember looked like it could have gone either way - he started the last batter off at 2-0 iirc

andrew cashner is perfect through five in pittsburgh; 53 pitches

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1jPLgh7NSo9urpUZOnT4Sxftb0QxOAKfe7QnyoYnOuDZIaF0Gbg

Are we owning this, Pirates fans, or is it embarrassing?

By 'Pirates fans' I, of course, mean Mookieproof,

we are no longer owning this

love jedd gyorko, tho -- good west virginia kid, pirates fan growing up

andrew cashner: 9 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 BB, 7 K, 97 pitches, 67 strikes

nice game

@MLB 7m
Andrew Cashner pulled off what some call a Maddux (shutout on fewer than 100 pitches): http://atmlb.com/166aCnq

Career Maddux leaders (1988-2013):
1. Greg Maddux 13
2. Zane Smith 7
3. Bob Tewksbury 6
t4. Tom Glavine 5
t4. Roy Halladay 5

Other active notables include: Jamie Moyer and Bartolo Colon, with 4 each; Josh Beckett, Chris Carpenter, Tim Hudson, Jason Marquis, Roy Oswalt and James Shields each have 3.

http://groundballwitheyes.blogspot.com/2012/04/maddux.html

* 28 Madduxes have been 1-0 games, including Roy Halladay's performance on September 6th, 2003, when he became the only pitcher to throw an extra-inning Maddux, going 10 frames on just 99 pitches. Just when you thought Halladay couldn't be any greater, right?

wish we had the data to see how many Madduxes Seaver threw

Jamie Moyer is active?