A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

Yeah King Felix and Matt Cain were the last ones in 2012 iirc? Good for Germán I guess, now he’ll be remembered for something else besides beating his girlfriend.

one of the better pitched games you’ll see, yes oakland sucks but german really didn’t make any mistakes. all in all it looked relatively easy for him lol

he gave up 17 runs in his 5 1/3 innings pitched before tonight lol

This was on TV here, I could have watched it (saw Stanton's HR). Obviously, though, what possible reason would there be for doing so? So I continued with my approximately 24th re-watch of Mad Men, one for every perfect game ever pitched. Well played.

not the easiest guy to root for

Perfect games are news: golfed with two people today who weren't baseball fans, but they'd heard about Germán.

Posnanski has a column up, not shareable. "But, again, what are we supposed to feel? German is, to say the least, a difficult guy to root for, sort of the opposite of King Félix"--just rewording things enough to dodge plagiarism.

My son and I went to the Twins-Braves game on Monday night. Both starting pitchers (Sonny Gray and Spencer Strider) were outstanding. It was a true pitching duel through seven innings.

I’m really glad Strider regained his form, I love watching that little guy pitch!

He's a huge fan favorite here in ATL.

He is fantastic to watch when he’s dealing and he seems like a great person as well.

Plus the porn stache.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdTSe5_XoAI0nEI?format=jpg&name=large genuinely love him.

This was on TV here, I could have watched it (saw Stanton's HR). Obviously, though, what possible reason would there be for doing so? So I continued with my approximately 24th re-watch of Mad Men, one for every perfect game ever pitched. Well played.

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not the easiest guy to root for

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Don Draper is flawed but still, I really wanted to see him find peace at the end

He’s also not a real person.

lmao, sorry obvious joke went over my head, apologies, coverage of this cunt’s sportswashing has been rough to see all day.

Not sure if I knew this or not; Ron Hassey caught two of the 24 perfect games. He has some significance in Blue Jay history as the guy who made the last Yankee out in the division-clinching game of '85.

Bello took a no-hitter into the 8th last night

Boston lost 2-0 obviously

He’s so special. They need to extend him yesterday.

A.J. Finch just removed Manning 7 outs from a no-hitter. I'm usually the old-school complainer in these situations, but it was an easy call--third start ofr the IL, 90+ pitches, 2-0 lead, just walked a guy and looked bad on ball four.

Tiger fans have had so little to root for this year, that was nice. If Belt had gotten a bunt down to break it up--1000% defensible in context--I think he would have needed a police escort out of town.

Guess I should have tuned in.

Was happy for the tigers really. Good for them.

Valdez has completed 8, only 81 pitches.

Did it! (And got to see it on TSN.)

You know what I'm going to say...infinitely more impressive than last year's WS no-hitter. (I couldn't even remember if it was Valdez who contributed five innings or someone else--it was Javier.) Seven strikeouts, one walk, 93 pitches, 65 strikes.

Does the franchise that got caught cheating deserve a no-hitter and the return of Verlander in the same day?

No they don’t. A pox upon them

regardless, 93 pitches (and ya, zero hits) is impressive af

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