A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

also while i'm on B-R here's probably the worst tough-luck loss of all time for a pitcher
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MLN/MLN195905260.shtml

ha, wow

OMG

i'm like happy for him - but why couldn't this have happened in T.?

I"M TORN!

thru 8, getting 7-8-9 in the ninth

― ok dennis hopper (J0rdan S.), Saturday, May 29, 2010 6:09 PM (3 hours ago)

uh...

???

ha yeah i was gonna playfully bust him for that too

also while i'm on B-R here's probably the worst tough-luck loss of all time for a pitcher
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MLN/MLN195905260.shtml

― ciderpress, Saturday, May 29, 2010 10:23 PM (Yesterday)

harvey haddix! that was the name

I would feel really shitty if I were the guy who batted in the winning run for that game

ha yeah i was gonna playfully bust him for that too

― k3vin k., Saturday, May 29, 2010 11:46 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

i don't understand

the marlins TV guy tonight said that in his second start ever in the majors in 98, halladay had a no hitter with two out in the ninth and he gave up a homer

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TOR/TOR199809270.shtml

HR: B Higginson (25, off R Halladay; 9th inn, 0 on, 2 outs to Deep LF).

(jordy it was that you said 7-8-9 was coming up - obv in a game in which no batters have reached base these are the only possible batters due up in the 9th)

oh, right

Helms' "strikeout" in the 9th was BALLS in every sense. What a disgrace to the record book.

there were a few really borderline K calls throughout the game

yeah, which is why PGs aren't really that big a deal (I wonder how many more we'll get before the BP oil leak is plugged).

i.e. the first batter of the game xp myself

the marlins TV guy tonight said that in his second start ever in the majors in 98, halladay had a no hitter with two out in the ninth and he gave up a homer

Being in Toronto, I was watching that game on TV. Little did we know...

Seriously though, the number of near-no-hitters and PGs is way up this year, innit? Is it just a contingent statistical anomaly, or are pitchers finally eating their Wheaties or what?

it's mostly an anomaly. 4-homer games are about as rare as perfect games historically, and there were 2 of those in 2002 and another in 2003 and people were like 'oh maybe these aren't gonna be as rare anymore' and there's been none since.

the only empirical explanation i can think of is strikeouts are continuing to go up league-wide which means fewer balls in play and thus fewer chances for bloopy/seeing eye hits to break up dominant pitching performances

would just like to note that tomorrow's rockies/giants game features ubaldo vs timmy l

I enjoyed that :)

(except the last inning where it looked like his ERA would triple and his arm would fall off but but)

Timmy has been off for the last four starts. i thought they were going to get to Ubaldo in the ninth but it didn't happen despite he giving them the chance.

Here's the pitch described by (I think) the SF commentators as "the best pitch ever" - a 99mph 2-seamer, apparently:

http://i45.tinypic.com/ok2w53.jpg

armando gallaraga perfect through 7 2/3

AUSTIN JACKSON

AAARGH

haha he was totally out

JIM JOYCE

What, they missed that call so hard!

Miggy is furious.

wow

Miggy should just cold-cock that fucker.

Can they retroactively fix that?

That was one of the biggest mistakes in the history of umpiring.

Rick Suttcliffe is giving Joyce way too much credit right now.

Surely the commish's office has the authority to overturn that bullshit and award the PG.

...I hope.

how on earth would they do that?

MAJOR CREDIT to Galarraga for not losing his shit.

Galarraga's just happy that he's earned himself another start.

I'm honestly kinda pissed off about this.

bud selig will unveil the time machine hes built from old pieces he saved from milwaukee county stadium xxp

I mean, I know perfect games are kind of a bullshit thing but come on.

This was a very hollow Indians lineup, too.

Three proverbial bags of dicks for Jim Joyce, though.

game time: 1:44

@JoeWestPR Jim Joyce is an embarrassment to baseball. Not because he blew a call but because he extended a game by doing so. That is just bad umpiring.