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.

Well there you go, Brandon Lowe just walked.

Pivetta ended up with 6 2/3 no-hit ball. Sox lose 1-0.

Four-pitcher, eight-walk no-hitter. No one cares.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/cubs-vs-dodgers/2021/06/24/633505#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=633505

lol I fell asleep before this happened but I didn't realise when Pivetta was lifted he was still working on the no-hitter! ouch

Apparently he'd thrown 100 pitches.. 0-0 game... tough

pirates righty max kranick has thrown five perfect innings (50 pitches) in his major league debut

and is out -- i think there was a rain delay? anyway, cool

german marquez through eight in colorado (86 pitches)

also doubled twice

gave up a single to a guy who is now hitting .131

classic rockies-pirates

domingo german (?) through seven at fenway (90 pitches tho)

...and then the yanks lost the game

you hate to see it

:)

So that’s a way to make your debut

Amazing that he got through the 8th inning on 3 pitches.

Future Guardian Triston McKenzie is perfect through seven (on 85 pitches).

n/m

Having a no hitter interrupted by a rain delay has got to be agonizing (Happening now in the Royals/Cubs game)

tanner houck hitless through 5

4 walks lol

hung a breaking ball for a homer

Corbin Burnes headed to the 8th (103 pitches, though).

they would be foolish, but

thanks for the heads up! burnes is ridiculous

through 8 at 114 pitches! :-o

craig counsell always seems like he's having the worst day of his life, and i imagine he's about to

115 pitches going into the 9th...Dan Plesac's nephew started for Cleveland; I totally associate his uncle with the Brewers, even though he played for many teams.

Burnes has 14 Ks and a walk; if he got three outs of any kind without a hit or a walk, would that give him a 100 Game Score?

burnes is out, only the combined no-hitter is in play, this is a second-rate no-hitter at best, i'm out

Smart move, I guess. A combined no-hitter holds less than zero interest for me.

9/11 will always be remembered as the day corbin burnes threw 8 pretty good innings

Combined GS of 102...except I don't think you can have a combined GS, right?

Would’ve been super cool but like you can’t push your best guy to throw 130 pitches

yeah, definitely. maybe a late career guy, or a lesser talent that might be having the best moment of his life or something, but not burnes. he's awesome

you totally can -- god knows pitchers have done it before -- but yeah not when you're cruising to a division title

gabe kapler would've left him in if he'd already allowed 5 runs

From the sublime to the ridiculous, Keegan Akin is 4 hours away from a 7-inning no-no

4 outs

now 3 outs

if he does it he will officially be a better pitcher than corbin burnes, who did not do it

nope, 7-inning no-hitters officially do not count, except in our hearts

**Cy Young is awarded to Burnes**

Burnes: Counsell, are they booing me?
Counsell: no, they were saying Boo-urns
Andrew Wagner: I was saying Boo-urns

i thought the combined no-hitter was the least respected form of no-hitter, but the 7 inning version is lower

fuck off vlad jr

I feel it to be essentially certain the Orioles blow the lead now

LOL

still a better pitcher than corbin burnes imo

Esoteric record...Most runs in an inning that breaks up a no-hitter in the 7th inning or later?

11 runs!

11 hits in the inning alone

I thought the Orioles had used up their capacity to surprise me but they just don't know the word quit

Houck perfect through 5 - and then pulled.