A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

Have a strange feeling that the lack of Austin Jackson in center is going to be a factor here.

guh

welp

49% fastballs tonight? Really?

aw

Aargh.

Verlander on suicide watch.

pirates were last no-hit a month before i was born (by bob gibson)

@DKnobler
Verlander's 9th CG with 4 hits or less, 5th with 2 or less.

Broken up by Josh H....the one with the lifetime .280 OBP.

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they should suspend the entire rockies starting line up for 7 games if this happens

in Queens thru 6

4 walks and 93 pitches, too. don't think he's gonna make it!

jeez, fuck no-hitters, down goes one of yr offensive surprises of the season.

it's weird, he was holding his wrist? but he hit shoulder first, i thought? i thought at first that he just had the wind knocked out of him. skip "why am i still paid to play professional baseball" schumaker does that at least once per season, where he lays on the ground for a few minutes, limps off the field, and then later that night it's reported that he's fine.

go johan!

I believe Ron Darling just said "this is bigger than any career." FUCK

I'm getting a free live feed on mlb.com.

man beltran breaking it up would've been delicious

he did earlier in the game, but the umpire blew the call

oh, lol -- finally a break goes to the mets

Don't think I've ever seen a crowd cheer for a hitter who just took strike three.

what a moment

*arm falls off*

I KNOW NO-HITTERS FAIL TO IMPRESS YOU DR MORBIUS BUT CONGRATS ANYWAY

good for johan

hahaha someone ran on the field -- never change, new york

awesome

he always seemed like a good dude--surprised at how happy i am for him

that was so fucking awesome

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same! if someone's gonna no hit the cards i'm glad it's johan.

That was great, but, as much as I hate to say it, I've watched that replay three times...I guess he's not close to the first guy to catch a break. It'll be forgotten, and yeah, he's come through a lot.

Wasn't one of Halladay's a total gift?

Of course I'm going to tomorrow's game.

134 pitches. He had better finish the season.

‏@Kevin_Goldstein
I was on a draft call and missed the no-hit party. Any Debbie Downers complain about the pitch count?

yeah, KG likes human umpires too, he's not right all the time.

rip jimmy qualls

I don't remember the Near Perfect Game, but I do remember Leron Lee and Joe Wallis.

holy shit

yeah i remember the wallis one

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1154665/fanrun.gif

lollll

Can I find Santana's game scores for the last few seasons anywhere? I'm thinking this game wasn't among his top 5 Mets starts.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=santajo02&t=p&year=2012
and from there to season by season gamelogs for previous years. The no-hitter was a 90, his best as a Met.

Thanks. Yeah, just barely -- he had an 88, two 87s (including the next-to-last game of '08), and an 86.

86 being his last start!

High Heat Stats had a pretty detailed breakdown of that and other stuff pertaining to the no-hitter:

http://www.highheatstats.com/2012/06/10-amazin-mets-fact-about-johan-santanas-no-hitter/#more-3847

43rd-highest Game Score for a Mets starting pitcher is illuminating.

Also, Rob Gardner (???) going 15 innings in '65!

also, at Saturday's BP event at Citi Field, they had this guy from Bloomberg Sports on the panel, who just last week evaluated the chances of the Mets having such a no-hitter drought as 0.32%:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=17172

Nice timing.

A couple of days after the no-hitter, a guy at Slate responded to the Bloomberg piece:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/06/02/mets_no_hitter_drought_finally_broken_by_johan_santana_how_unlikely_was_the_streak_.html