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.

is emergency brain surgery gonna be the next Moneyball thing? god damn

one reason i'm glad i don't talk to living people in real life (i do consort with the dead) is that i don't have to hear dipshits complain about how poncedeleon was removed from the game after 7 hitless innings (and 116 pitches)

poor jim edmonds, the rotating color commentator for the game, who had to tell play-by-play doof dan mclaughlin maybe 10 times that it was the right move to take him out of the game

i mean ok i guess there are dimensions where poncedeleon works 5-pitch innings in the 8th and 9th and gets gatorade dumped on him after throwing a 126 pitch no-hitter. but in the larger scheme of things, it's his debut, it's a mid-july game for two teams that aren't making the playoffs

wait his last name is Ponce de Leon? badass

the amount of mythic horseshit surrounding no-hitters has some ppl thinking it's worth endangering a career that's just started

If it's endangering a career, then yeah, but is it always? Pitchers throw a lot! Maybe there are occasions where they can just take fewer long tosses in the outfield the next day or something. (Not saying this was such an occasion - 116 pitches after seven innings is an awful lot and he's a kid.)

No hitters are awesome.

Austin Gomber (!) of the Cards thru 6

reasonable # pitches too

making his starting debut, no less, the day after Poncedeleon took a no-hitter through 7 in HIS starting debut. I have no idea how to look something like this up but I can't imagine that's ever happened before

lol, the fire alarms, flashing sirens and lights, are going off throughout great american ballpark

welp, someone is getting fired

looooooooool

where is your god now, people who believed in god

The Braves pitcher is two outs away.

(And under 100 pitches.)

Damn--two outs, 2-2 count, Chris Taylor singles.

It was Sean Newcomb, by the way.

I was, um, a little off on the pitch count (that was his Game Score)--he was over 130 pitches.

aaaand Newcomb has teenage tweets

The Jays guy, Pannone, through 6. It's his first major league start! He's thrown 86 pitches, though, so probably won't be out for the 7th. (The Orioles starter, meanwhile, has only given up one hit.)

never mind

The best way to break up a no-hitter is to post here.

López of the KC Royals perfect through 6 2/3.

I was going to preface my post with "Guaranteed to kill it, but..."

3 outs away. This is his 7th start.

lol this would be the 2nd time the Brewers trade away a pitcher and immediately have him throw a no hitter

aw raspberries.

blake snell through six, 82 pitches

welp

jose ramirez has no respect

bauer through six, but way too many pitches

The Jays like to spot the opposition three-six innings of no-hit baseball most every night.

Not a no-hitter, but Kyle Hendricks is through 8IP at just 71 pitches.

it is a shutout

81-pitch complete game shutout

only 3 Ks

Lot of good D in the outfield today.

yeah but Hendricks didn't even hit a HR, laaaame

Fiers second career no-hitter (also: second career shutout, second career complete game)

I was busy being tortured by Edwin Diaz

I guess that's about as inelegant as no-hitters get...I salute him, anyway (when he tries to salute back, he won't be able to lift his arm).

The Rays are 8 innings into a combined perfect game -- opener Ryne Stanek (first 2 innings) and Ryan Yarbrough (6 IP).

never mind

Rookie Paddack for the Padres. Through 7.

Castro HR, it will never happen for the Padres.

sale has 12 strikeouts through five (89 pitches tho)

Leake perfect through 7, more importantly: he got Trout and Ohtani and he only threw 67 (!!!) pitches.

@BtBScore
Mike Leake has allowed an average exit velocity of 90.9 MPH on 16 batted balls.

This is what it must have been like watching prime Maddux.

Welp, well now he gets to pitch a Maddux.

tsk, slept on Astros' latest combined 0-hitter

Keith Hernandez said they "don't tickle my fancy"