A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

wow!
that was fantastic. i love watching pitchers and catchers celebrate after a no-hitter or perfect game. baseball has a pretty awesome (and unique?) thing where pitchers/catchers have a special and defined close relationship apart from other positions

KYLE GIBSON (?!) is through five against the YANKEES (?!?!)

this won't end well

in his career debut, nick kingham is perfect through 7 against the cardinals
edit: was

he made it through 6.2

Paxton on some kind of tear: 13 strikeouts, 0 walks, 0 ER, 4 hits, over 6 innings. 80 pitches.

To follow up on that: 16 strikeouts, 1 walk, 5 hits and no ER. 105 pitches.

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since 2000

i thought this thread was only for the card tricks that are most no-hitters

^^

if you're on a list with jeremy bonderman and rick van den hurk, that deserves some attention

well why not make it about more than those card tricks?

yes i think what morbius was trying to say was "thank you"

i agree that Paxton's game was better than most 0-hitters

julio teheran has a card trick through six

+ 2 hits + a sac fly RBI

broken up after 6.2

well why not make it about more than those card tricks?

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, May 3, 2018 1:59 PM (one hour ago

the thread is about no-hitters, but tradition dictates that you can't actually mention a no-hitter in progress because it's bad luck. hence the vague title

this thread is now jinxed :(

padres are getting no hit through 8

Must be the first no hitter thrown outside of the US/Canada.

Gerrit Cole with a 106 game score. Holy smokes. A shame it wasn’t against Bauer.

Actually I’m calculating 100, mlb.com has it at 106.

Cole had 21 strikeouts ... 16 on the mound and 5 at the plate heh

also first combined no-hitter by the Dodgers

a combo is a purer kind of no-hitter, since they're always dependent on the defense and not one pitcher

seems just as likely that they could be dependant on several pitchers and not the defense at all

put in a waiver claim for Newcomb over Ross in my $ league.
FIP and peripherals look great on both, just came down on age/team quality.

obviously having NO hits in a game is HUGELY dependent on how the defense is positioned 98% of the time, but never change NA

Fact: for a true “pitcher’s” no hitter to occur, all the fielders must be bunched up in right field. This has only happened once, in 1906 and lasted 12 innings.

to morbs: yes I understand that and agree, but am just confused why that would be more the case in a combined no-hitter than a solo no-hitter

"a purer kind of no-hitter"

I'm not sure if this means more or less luck-dependent.

To me, a combined no-hitter would involve more luck. Luck is part of any no-hitter--a great play or three, help from the umpires somewhere. But starting pitchers who pitch no-hitters almost uniformly have great stuff that day. The luck is the difference between the no-hitter that gets the headline and the two-hitter that's forgotten.

With multiple pitchers, though, the odds of throwing out three or four guys in a row who all have great stuff seems less likely. One or two of the one-inning contributors might have been perfectly average; getting though an inning without giving up a hit doesn't seem particularly noteworthy.

Yankees working on a combined one in the 7th, scoreless game

paxton thru 7

hot take: no-hitters are really fun.

Paxton is a monster.

Awesome stuff!

(Martinez can't call a game jfc)

seemed to get a good ovation from the Toronto fans

baseball custom dictates that during a no-hitter no one talks to the pitcher because he is trying to make a team game too much about himself

— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) May 9, 2018

I'm so depressed right now nothing worse than getting swept in a 4 game series on top of all that setting a franchise strikeout record

Haha wrong thread

jordan lyles (?) is perfect (?) through seven

not anymore

wacha through eight

when i come home at midnight to a post like that, i expect closure.

60% chance, according to a recent fangraphs article

vince velasquez is through six, with way too many pitches

do your stuff, gabe

LUCAS GIOLITO IS THROUGH FIVE lol

daniel poncedeleon, making his debut 15 months after having emergency brain surgery after getting drilled in the head in AAA, and possessing a great name, through 6

Way to go, BUD.

things just haven't been the same ever since Matheny got fired and they took away Bud's clubhouse hazing enforcement credentials

2018 MLB possibly peaked just now.