A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

Tuning in for the 9th. How did he get so good? I never thought of him as anything better than a #3 ish pitcher.

nice. 26/27 first-pitch strikes, game score 99

I hope eephus was watching

damn – 52 years since the O's had a 9-inning no hitter! (Palmer obviously)

I missed it!!! But it doesn't matter, my joy is pure.

i saw him pitch at high a few years back and was totally unimpressed, but something clicked for him the following season.

anyways, a 99 gamescore is...pretty good. current rWAR for means is 2.3!

Back in AA, there has been a Hunter Greene sighting. Dude threw 71 pitches and 37 were over 100+ mph. Supposedly the most in the statcast whatever radar era.

Good luck elbow.

Oh probably no doubt there...Dr. Kremchek is going to add a deck on his house on that one.

wade miley's turn

ok that one's in the books now it's sean manaea's turn

This is nuts. Clevelanders twice in a month.

Has there been no hitters this close before?

i'm super happy for wade miley but this is a sign of things gone wrong

(xpost) Dave Stewart (against the Jays) and Fernando both threw one on June 29, 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_no-hitters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O84masa3MXA

No posts about Spencer Turnbull's no-hitter? I guess no-hitters are becoming routine these days!

Was drifting off before the first pitch.

Turnbull?!

Trivia:

Kyle Seager has been in the winning team of a no hitter 4 times, including a perfecto. He also has been on the losing side of 5 no-hitters... including a perfect game. That’s the highest total of no-hitters participation in history. Five of those have been at home: combined, Hernandez, Iwakuma, Means and Turnbull (T-Mobile Park is ridiculous). Of note that of the remaining four, one was in Canada, the other in Mexico.

a no hitter in Mexico?

Yeah the combined no-hitter by the Dodgers vs the Padres in Monterrey.

DOWN IN MONTEREY

https://i.gifer.com/Z5PP.gif

lol good for him

texas cleveland and seattle have all been no-hit twice so far

Thanks for the heads-up; caught the 9th.

You don’t need one, it’s every day now.

Today's No-Hitter of the Day.

it was cool that it was a good pitcher this time!

god, the no-hitters by good pitchers...those are just the best

Everyone gets a no hitter this year.

must have been bittersweet to come against his former team (for whom he pitched one inning)

is that right? lol

i gotta say, i haven't watched kluber pitch in a long time, and god DAMN is he boring. like when they show his face, i mean

he's just like, welp, driving in the middle of the lane here

Just realized that Cleveland, Seattle, and Texas have all been no-hit twice this year, so perhaps they should get a new hitting coach/approach.

Why is this happening?

it goes back to a lack of faith in god, this is punishment

especially on the part of the people in cleveland, seattle, and all of texas. repent, sinners!!

on the other hand, this may be the work of prayer warriors, on the pitchers' side. or against the batters, depending on the prayer.

please, god, please let me defeat joey gallo in spiritual and baseball battle tonight

who did joey gallo sleep with? why did god punish him with no hits tonight? was he lusting after a bathsheba in his mind as he struck out? and did he strike out? and where is that boxscore, anyway

the (slightly) deadened ball may have something to do with it. that about the weather? has it been cooler than usual in these places?

MLB is batting .236 this year (.245 last year, .252 the year before that), and the number of balls in play per game has also been steadily dropping -- exactly the conditions needed for no-hitters. It's a decade-long trend in hitting, and more no-hitters is one of the results.

so this trend has been ongoing. due to just better pitchers throwing harder than ever, basically?

I think a change in approach too. More shifts and more hitters embracing their pull tendencies - willing to hit into the shift if they think they can clear the fences.

yeah. strikeouts at an all-time high - so the (slightly) (maybe) deadened ball isn't really to blame.

15% more strikeouts than hits.

Bieber, Barber, somebody--who can keep track anymore?

I killed it.

Pivetta and Michael Wacha have thrown three and a half innings of no-hit baseball against each other so far. I mean it's not going to hold up but it's kind of cool. Pivetta's been perfect actually I think.