Pineda through 6
― JoeStork, Thursday, 18 June 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
nm
― JoeStork, Thursday, 18 June 2015 01:00 (eight years ago) link
scherzer perfect through five, 55 pitches
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 June 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
seven, 78
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 June 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
Whoa, close.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
lol damn
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link
oopsie
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:27 (eight years ago) link
What a cheap HBP...anyway, I wonder if that's the closest anyone's come since Vander Meer. And I'm quite sure Scherzer was more dominant than Vander Meer.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
wau scherzer, wish I'd had enough presence of mind to start when I got the perfect through 6 at bat notification
― definite parallels between Dany and Rachel Dolezal (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link
*start watching
No surprise, not even remotely close, even allowing for strikeout inflation:
Scherzer -- 18 IP, 1 hit, 26 K, 0 BB, 1 HBPVander Meer -- 18 IP, 0 hits, 11 K, 11 BB, 0 HBP
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
best consecutive starts of all time m/l
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
game scores 100, 97
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
He gets the phillies next time
― nomar, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
Couldn't find anything especially notable before or after Koufax's no-hitters. Found this for Pedro in 1999:
17 IP, 1 run, 3 hits, 32 K, 3 BB, 1 HBP, GS of 90/98
It's got to be the best back-to-back ever.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 June 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
(Scherzer, I mean.)
i'm told there have never before been back-to-back 97+ game scores
lots of hot takes already on tabata, of course. it's going to be pretty shitty if mccutchen gets drilled tomorrow because of that
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 June 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
Steib's consecutive one-hitters in '88:
18 IP, 0 runs, 2 hits, 12 K, 3 BB, 2 HBP, Game Scores 91/88
Last two starts of the season...anyway, not close to Scherzer past hits and runs.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 June 2015 01:04 (eight years ago) link
One more--Jim Tobin in 1944 (according to Jayson Stark, the only other time someone pitched a no-hitter and one-hitter back-to-back):
18 IP, 0 runs, 1 hit, 6 K (none in the one-hitter), 3 BB, 0 HBP, Game Scores 84/91
Different game, but again, not close.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 June 2015 01:20 (eight years ago) link
ah dang i've missed this, will watch tomorrow.
Scherzer -- 18 IP, 1 hit, 26 K, 0 BB, 1 HBP
lol that xfip.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 21 June 2015 02:18 (eight years ago) link
kinda fascinating to compare the career arcs of scherzer and verlander.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 21 June 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link
strange that umpires will add extra strikes in the 9th for a no-hitter but not deny a HBP that's leaned into, EXPPLICITLY AGAONST THE RULES.
(it was famously called to preserve the Drysdale '68 scoreless streak)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link
I guess HBP's can't be challenged, or they would have challenged the call. I can't think of a reason why they shouldn't be challenged though, unless umps feel it falls into the same category as arguing balls and strikes.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 21 June 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
There's a very long answer to this question that'll be in front of the paywall for at least the next few hours:
In his last two starts, Scherzer has game scores of 100 and 97. Has anyone ever had consecutive games above 95...or 90 for that matter?Asked by: Chihuahua332
http://www.billjamesonline.com/hey_bill/#46480
― clemenza, Monday, 22 June 2015 03:10 (eight years ago) link
It's not 1998, you don't have to wait for Bill James.
Here's another way to look at it: Scherzer had back-to-back Game Scores of 100 and 97. According to the Baseball-Reference Play Index, since 1914 only one starter had registered consecutive Game Scores of at least 95 or higher in the same season: R.A. Dickey of the New York Mets in 2012, when the knuckleballer threw back-to-back one-hitters, with two walks and 25 strikeouts (and an unearned run in one of the games). His Game Scores were 95 and 96. Nolan Ryan, author of seven no-hitters, came closest to matching Vander Meer when he pitched a no-hitter on July 15, 1973, a 17-strikeout game that scored 100. In his next start, he took a no-hitter into the seventh inning (although he'd allowed an unearned run in the first). Ryan would pitch into the 11th inning that day, eventually losing the game and finishing with a Game Score of 87.
http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/59400/max-scherzer-now-the-best-pitcher-in-the-game
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 June 2015 14:12 (eight years ago) link
(you would probably use a one-year subscrip to the Play Index a lot more than i would, clem -- you can also get a discount with the coupon code "bp")
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 June 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
marco estrada is perfect through seven
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
wrong day for the jays to go silent at the plate
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
Donaldson!!!
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
u gotta box him out, rays fans!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
god logan forsythe what an asshole
― definite parallels between Dany and Rachel Dolezal (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
sadness
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
I always liked Estrada; great to see him do well
― Evan R, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
this game continues to be ridiculous, btw
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
Do the Rays have any real hits in this game? Everything is a bloop or a squibber between a bunch of fielders.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
kiermeier's double in the ninth was a real hit (and a single for pretty much everyone else)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
its still going? christ on a cracker
― slothroprhymes, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
Kinda early, but given the context, Max Scherzer...
― Andy K, Saturday, 27 June 2015 00:25 (eight years ago) link
surprised that something so obvious would actually happen
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 June 2015 00:28 (eight years ago) link
starts very much in character
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 June 2015 00:35 (eight years ago) link
galvised
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 June 2015 00:42 (eight years ago) link
last to throw five perfect in three straight starts was doyle alexander in '76
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 June 2015 01:06 (eight years ago) link
Carrasco is into the 9th--one out, two on (HBP + something else, not a hit).
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 July 2015 01:46 (eight years ago) link
Geez...McCovey/Richardson, wrong result.
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 July 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
didn't tune in. still into wins and losses.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 July 2015 01:55 (eight years ago) link
smh
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 July 2015 01:57 (eight years ago) link
btw: http://milkeespress.com/lostninth.html
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 July 2015 02:05 (eight years ago) link
Something that actually crossed my mind seconds before it happened: "Joey Butler just sounds like the name of someone who'd break up a no-hitter with two out in the 9th."
― clemenza, Thursday, 2 July 2015 02:13 (eight years ago) link
Anibal Sanchez through seven
― Andy K, Saturday, 4 July 2015 01:05 (eight years ago) link
At 90 pitches