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.

you, f, hit the gowrs.

poor form.

Framber is such a fave, delighted for him

Lorenzen doing well, had picked him up for a minute for fantasy and then dropped him to pick up somebody else... I initially saw it after three innings and thought haha it would serve me right if he "did well" today

The strike zone got pretty generous at the end there.

I'll have you know Lorenzen's OPS as a hitter is .710. We may be looking at the wish.com Ohtani here, folks

Honestly, I'm surprised there are still CG no-hitters every now and again. I thought they were pretty much history.

Wow I saw his name in the notifications and thought I was going mad misremembering the name of the two-way reliever for the reds like 5 years ago but no! It’s him! Wish.com ohtani? I don’t remember ohtani throwing a no-hitter!

Honestly, just as cool seeing him move from reliever to starter, quite a distinct big-league journey this guy has made. Very very happy for him

Just watching the 9th inning now, very sweet to see his family and teams responses. They gave him a very long leash! Good on the manager, love to see it

Another slight against the DH. LET LORENZEN HIT

He was wearing custom cleats made from Vans Old School uppers...

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fum4se2sg07hb1.jpg

I had the same thought H.P., I remember him being a very cool player from the Reds but often very cool players don’t pan out. I was also surprised to find out it was that guy, and now that he’s not a Red anymore I can cheer for him so it all works out

Framber Valdez (again) is out there to start the 8th...I don't know: 114 pitches.

not great imo

Actually, maybe not--a call was overturned and the 7th extended...Will know in a minute.

They took him out (which even I agree with).

who *was* the last pitcher with two no-hitters in the same month (or even season)?

Steve Busby had two in the same year, I think, but surely must have been done since.

Scherzer’s two in 2015 was the first (and only) time it happened this century

I was wrong. Busby is the only pitcher to throw no-hitters in his first two seasons; here are two in the same season (article goes back to 2021).

https://www.mlb.com/news/pitchers-with-two-no-hitters-in-the-same-season

I was wrong too! Roy Halladay had two in 2010 as well

How can we forget Johnny Vander Meer’s 1938 seasons where he had two back to back no hitters (very impressive)

I figured Steve Busby would be excellent Immaculate Grid Fodder. No--eight seasons, all with K.C. (And, if you could check the pitch count on those two no-hitters, quite possibly a good example of why that's not a good idea.)

Busby subsequently became the first baseball player to undergo rotator cuff surgery. In an effort to help his arm recover from the surgery, his doctor recommended that Busby be placed on a pitch count. He is often believed to be the first baseball player to be placed on a pitch count, something that Busby has stated is a myth. Before his injury, he is alleged to have thrown close to 200 pitches in a game, which Busby also says is untrue.

Well that no hitter game went sideways

SF's Cobb nearly* perfect through 7IP. *0H, 6K, 0BB, 1ERR

Justin Steele, now 15-3 with a 2.69 ERA

dodgers' ryan pepiot is perfect through 6.1 and at 75 pitches

Merrill Kelly.

Living on the edge

Zac Gallen. (Announcer has no sense of decorum.)

Always sucks when such a great run of innings turns into being down 1-0

LOSS - Z. Gallen

Not only have the Astros scored 10 runs so far, Blanco has also only given up one walk through 8

Crazy. 8th game in the majors, never went more than 6, no hitter for Ronel Blanco.

Talking heads are saying he’s been using a change up that he learned in spring training this off season.

Who's Bailey Falter of Pittsburgh? He's no-hitting the extremely offensively potent Orioles in the 6th.

well, he gave up a double. but if you're only gonna strike out one through six, you have to be incredibly lucky

I guess he finally... faltered

Blanco carried another no-no into the 5th this time. Like 14 no hit innings before the streak came to an end

Glasnow 10Ks, 1H, 0BBs through 5ip with 61 pitches

Roberts calls it as 14Ks, 1H, 0BBs, 7ip at 88 pitches. Woulda been cool to be irresponsible and let him go out and try break his strikeout record, but responsibility wins out

3hits sorry

Corbin Burnes hasn't flirted with a no-hitter but he has certainly given the Orioles exactly what they hoped to get from him.

Yeah it's been good to see him immediately contribute to the team

Hunter Brown in KC rn... do not jinx it...

Poor guy--they left him in there for 11 hits, a walk, and nine runs?! I know it's helpful for your starter to get out of the first inning, but hasn't anybody on the Astros seen On the Waterfront? "This ain't your night, kid..."

jared jones - what's his spin rate?

https://i.postimg.cc/ncHHp5f4/IMG-9345.jpg

Not a no-hitter or a near one, but props to Albert Suarez, who has not pitched in the majors in more than six years and gave the Orioles 5 2/3 shutout innings today, 3 hits, no walks, 4 strikeouts.

xp ty! some research suggests that's good spin but not the toppity top. asked cuz his spin seemed noticeably faster on slo mo than other pitchers i've seen, but maybe that's an effect of how fast/slow the slo-mo is.

fingers crossed he doesn't end up in the pulled pork thread. he was clocking 100.

Tanner Houck just threw a 94 pitch cgso with three hits and 9 Ks. Looked like a right handed Chris Sale. Game time: 1.49.

Shortest nine-inning game since 2010.