A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

thru 7

last rookie to do a card trick?

can't believe you're wasting precious keystrokes on something so trivial

Joe Panik is fucking slaughtering my HACKING MASS team, that's what's important.

thru 8

last rook was Buchholz in 2007

Mets haven't been 0-hit since Darryl Kile in '93

was listening on the bus and will be able to see last inning.

lol that called strike to granderson

98 game score

@JeffPassan
Only five times before have pitchers thrown a no-hitter with no walks and plunked even one batter: Burdette, Horlen, Singer, Forsch, Brown.

@JeffPassan
Never before Chris Heston had anyone thrown a no-hitter with more than two HBP. Virgil Trucks and Bo Belinsky each hit a pair apiece.

http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/location.php?pitchSel=518790&game=gid_2015_06_09_sfnmlb_nynmlb_1/&batterX=&innings=nnnnnnnny&sp_type=1&s_type=3&league=mlb&pnf=&zlpo=

scherzer game score: 100

the helping hand of no-hitters

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-no-hitter-strike-zone-ninth-inning-changes-chris-heston/

Pineda through 6

nm

scherzer perfect through five, 55 pitches

seven, 78

Whoa, close.

lol damn

oopsie

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.

wau scherzer, wish I'd had enough presence of mind to start when I got the perfect through 6 at bat notification

*start watching

No surprise, not even remotely close, even allowing for strikeout inflation:

Scherzer -- 18 IP, 1 hit, 26 K, 0 BB, 1 HBP
Vander Meer -- 18 IP, 0 hits, 11 K, 11 BB, 0 HBP

best consecutive starts of all time m/l

game scores 100, 97

He gets the phillies next time

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.

(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

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.

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.

ah dang i've missed this, will watch tomorrow.

Scherzer -- 18 IP, 1 hit, 26 K, 0 BB, 1 HBP

lol that xfip.

kinda fascinating to compare the career arcs of scherzer and verlander.

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)

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.

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

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

(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")

marco estrada is perfect through seven

wrong day for the jays to go silent at the plate

Donaldson!!!

u gotta box him out, rays fans!

god logan forsythe what an asshole

sadness

I always liked Estrada; great to see him do well

this game continues to be ridiculous, btw

Do the Rays have any real hits in this game? Everything is a bloop or a squibber between a bunch of fielders.

kiermeier's double in the ninth was a real hit (and a single for pretty much everyone else)

its still going? christ on a cracker

Kinda early, but given the context, Max Scherzer...