A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

good job

Renteria really sucks.

Ryan Dempster has been shockingly effective in his two starts. 13 IP, 4 hits, 4 BB, 2R (1 ER), 10 K. Kudos.

not really shocked cuz dempster showed #3-type stuff in relief last year, mixing in a lot of above avg pitches but nothing super-special; having him in the bp was kind of confounding to me. havent seen him yet this year but my guess is that he'll be a quality starter

Yeah the shock is from years of mis-having him as a closer.

edgar "i stretch a lot in the batters box" renteria provided half their offense!

Kyle Lo(h)se deserves a place here

Cain just dingered.

And has 6 no-hit innings.

it is now 6.2 3-hit innings.

can add Looper to the list of ex-closers doing wtf well as a starter.

LEE YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY ANYTHING WHICH IS THE POINT OF THE THREAD HINT HINT

Off-topic but on-topic in the "taking thread title literally" sense: SCOTT OLSEN (!?!?!?)

Not surprising: Jair Mothjerrfjuckjing Jurrjens. What is surprising, though, is his 7.46 K/9.

Yeah, after yesterday's start I grabbed him in the fantasy league. He looked good in an "I don't give a fuck about ANY of these chumps" way.

Ponson wtf.

every year there's always one or two dudes like this guy was in '00:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/smithch07.shtml

joe saunders

scott olson, tho he got rocked last night

Jon Lester is pitching really well so far today.

: D

Man I sure picked the right meaningless Royals game to go to. Never thought I'd see a no-hitter.

well they are often worse pitched than some one or two hit games.

well, you know, it takes a tremendous amount of luck to achieve a one or two hitter.

they are often worse pitched than three or four hitters.

haha, fuck you :)

(METS HAVE DONE FINE W/OUT ONE IN 46 YEARS)

best pitched game i ever saw live was when pedro struck out 15 and lost. to tampa. completely wtf.

excuse me, retrosheet.org tells me he struck out 17 and lost.

PITCHING
Tampa Bay Devil Rays         IP     H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR

Trachsel W(2-2)               9     3   0   0   3  11   0
Boston Red Sox               IP     H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR

P. Martinez L(5-1)            9     6   1   1   1  17   0

but Trachsel pitched better! HE GAVE UP HALF AS MANY HITS!

anyone see WGN rerun the 9th of Jim Maloney's no hitter vs the Cubs in '65, a few weeks ago during a rain delay? The guy walked TEN and threw something like 190 pitches!

Back when the game was played by MEN

pretty sure while w/ montreal pedro threw 9 perfect innings & ended up losing

that's not too impressive, a lot of bad luck involved there.

xp to Andy: MEN whose arms were dead at 31!

so what? all the hitters were either boozed up or hungover. EVEN PLAYING FIELD.

xp to Andy: MEN whose arms were dead at 31!

-- Dr Morbius, Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Back then, you didn't know whether you'd HAVE your throwing arm the next day -- lost to the combine out on the back forty, or combat, or what have you. You just threw like hell, left everything out there on the mound.

I once left my watch out on the mound, but that was not on purpose.

daniel cabrera, the consecutive reigning AL walks champion, pitched his third game WITHOUT issuing a walk this season last night. his three-peat is in peril as he has now tumbled out of the top ten on the heels of his 8th straight quality start.

Following Daver's stinging rebukes, I'd like to known if it's now OK to say that Lester pitched a NH.

Dana Eveland is pitching very nicely.

http://static.flickr.com/72/175995087_edd1f77f57_o.jpg

i saw andrew miller strike out 9 the other night, but i originally thought it was 13 or so, so i couldn't even imagine seeing 17

joe saunders is 8-1 w/ a 2.31 era right now

JUSTIN DUCHSCHERER

n/m

Cueto through five

Last Play: G. Blanco reached on bunt single to third

>:O

BRETTY MYERS OH MY THRU 6

Oh well

Greg Maddux still has it. He's perfect so far . . .

Ladies and Gentlemen, Bitter Cubsfan

I guess it's all part of what they call . . . gowring up.

cubs' alec mills is through eight, 103 pitches

and there it is. former college walk-on

whoop

Such a rando dude to land a no hitter.

he's a decent pitcher but the brewers also just looked like total garbage yesterday. they made some really dumb defensive errors that led to runs scoring and i'm guessing that impacted their overall performance

The Brewers' Corbin Burnes & the Twins' José Berríos both haven't allowed a hit through 6 IP.

Jinx.

classic andy k

both were perfect until a HBP too

*screams into glove*

ex-pirate joe musgrove through 8

Congratulations San Diego!

YESSSSSSS! First one!

Only watched the last 6 outs but boy it was fun.

NL West teams are loving this new Arlington ballpark.

I know no-hitters are sorta dumb achievements but the way they unfold is pure narrative delight.

Vic Caratini has now caught both of the two most recent no hitters

I had no idea the Pads had never had one before.

Clay Kirby is dead but happy.

North Texas softball pitcher Hope Trautwein strikes out all 21 batters in perfect game

rodon through 7

Love Rodon and glad he is making a comeback. That slider was beautiful.

every BIP is a heart attack with this defense ffs

I see the slider is still art.

Francona put two lefty hitters into the game, such a sweetie
Rodon thru 8

There was a season where Rodon had the second most valuable slider after Kershaw.

holy crap @ Abreu getting to the bag there!

wau abreu

Can't believe they reviewed it

slider too good :(

that was a mile inside but

Luplow is shook

sox fans are so lucky with stone/benetti

After decades of Hawk, they deserve it.

I do think it's the best commenting duo.

NO-HITTERED

Really happy for Rodon.

At this pace we are going to have 30 no hitters this season.

Congrats Rodon
now let's move the mound back ;)

weird game, by my count 3 whiffs in the first 4 innings, 16 whiffs in the last 5

so happy for rodon; still pissed about what his coach at nc state did to him

Could you fill a guy in?I haven’t heard about this.

basically they drove him into the ground for their own benefit, e.g. making him throw 134 pitches on short rest, from which his injury history may or may not stem

https://www.espn.com/blog/keith-law/insider/post/_/id/2258

https://accsports.com/teams/nc-state/worn-down-the-most-abused-acc-pitchers-of-the-year

Jorge Lopez has struck out 8 in 4 no-hit innings, I know that's not that far but I'm not gonna have that many chances to say an Orioles starting pitcher is doing really well

Sorry, that was my fault (still a pretty decent start and gave the Orioles a good chance to win

)

(it's fine

tbh)

Because of a doubleheader, it’s only going to go 7 innings and thus can’t count as one. But through 5 Matz has only walked two.

Well... it wasn’t gonna be official anyways.

if it’s long enough to count as a game it’s long enough to count as a no-hitter imo

i was going to, in the official record books in my mind.

if a pitcher throws 9 hitless innings and allows a hit in the 10th it’s not a no-hitter, so it follows that a complete-game 7-inning no-hitter IS a no-hitter