A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

one reason i'm glad i don't talk to living people in real life (i do consort with the dead) is that i don't have to hear dipshits complain about how poncedeleon was removed from the game after 7 hitless innings (and 116 pitches)

poor jim edmonds, the rotating color commentator for the game, who had to tell play-by-play doof dan mclaughlin maybe 10 times that it was the right move to take him out of the game

i mean ok i guess there are dimensions where poncedeleon works 5-pitch innings in the 8th and 9th and gets gatorade dumped on him after throwing a 126 pitch no-hitter. but in the larger scheme of things, it's his debut, it's a mid-july game for two teams that aren't making the playoffs

wait his last name is Ponce de Leon? badass

the amount of mythic horseshit surrounding no-hitters has some ppl thinking it's worth endangering a career that's just started

If it's endangering a career, then yeah, but is it always? Pitchers throw a lot! Maybe there are occasions where they can just take fewer long tosses in the outfield the next day or something. (Not saying this was such an occasion - 116 pitches after seven innings is an awful lot and he's a kid.)

No hitters are awesome.

Austin Gomber (!) of the Cards thru 6

reasonable # pitches too

making his starting debut, no less, the day after Poncedeleon took a no-hitter through 7 in HIS starting debut. I have no idea how to look something like this up but I can't imagine that's ever happened before

lol, the fire alarms, flashing sirens and lights, are going off throughout great american ballpark

welp, someone is getting fired

looooooooool

where is your god now, people who believed in god

The Braves pitcher is two outs away.

(And under 100 pitches.)

Damn--two outs, 2-2 count, Chris Taylor singles.

It was Sean Newcomb, by the way.

I was, um, a little off on the pitch count (that was his Game Score)--he was over 130 pitches.

aaaand Newcomb has teenage tweets

The Jays guy, Pannone, through 6. It's his first major league start! He's thrown 86 pitches, though, so probably won't be out for the 7th. (The Orioles starter, meanwhile, has only given up one hit.)

never mind

The best way to break up a no-hitter is to post here.

López of the KC Royals perfect through 6 2/3.

I was going to preface my post with "Guaranteed to kill it, but..."

3 outs away. This is his 7th start.

lol this would be the 2nd time the Brewers trade away a pitcher and immediately have him throw a no hitter

aw raspberries.

blake snell through six, 82 pitches

welp

jose ramirez has no respect

bauer through six, but way too many pitches

The Jays like to spot the opposition three-six innings of no-hit baseball most every night.

Not a no-hitter, but Kyle Hendricks is through 8IP at just 71 pitches.

it is a shutout

81-pitch complete game shutout

only 3 Ks

Lot of good D in the outfield today.

yeah but Hendricks didn't even hit a HR, laaaame

Fiers second career no-hitter (also: second career shutout, second career complete game)

I was busy being tortured by Edwin Diaz

I guess that's about as inelegant as no-hitters get...I salute him, anyway (when he tries to salute back, he won't be able to lift his arm).

The Rays are 8 innings into a combined perfect game -- opener Ryne Stanek (first 2 innings) and Ryan Yarbrough (6 IP).

never mind

Rookie Paddack for the Padres. Through 7.

Castro HR, it will never happen for the Padres.

sale has 12 strikeouts through five (89 pitches tho)

Leake perfect through 7, more importantly: he got Trout and Ohtani and he only threw 67 (!!!) pitches.

@BtBScore
Mike Leake has allowed an average exit velocity of 90.9 MPH on 16 batted balls.

This is what it must have been like watching prime Maddux.

Welp, well now he gets to pitch a Maddux.

tsk, slept on Astros' latest combined 0-hitter

Keith Hernandez said they "don't tickle my fancy"

This thread has probably outlived its usefulness--like Keith, I couldn't care less unless it's a CG. (Two guys combining for four home runs doesn't thrill me either.) Anyway, a game I'm watching, Verlander's through five: 73 pitches, 8 strikeouts.