A Thread For Starting Pitchers That Are Doing Really Well

good job

Renteria really sucks.

Ryan Dempster has been shockingly effective in his two starts. 13 IP, 4 hits, 4 BB, 2R (1 ER), 10 K. Kudos.

not really shocked cuz dempster showed #3-type stuff in relief last year, mixing in a lot of above avg pitches but nothing super-special; having him in the bp was kind of confounding to me. havent seen him yet this year but my guess is that he'll be a quality starter

Yeah the shock is from years of mis-having him as a closer.

edgar "i stretch a lot in the batters box" renteria provided half their offense!

Kyle Lo(h)se deserves a place here

Cain just dingered.

And has 6 no-hit innings.

it is now 6.2 3-hit innings.

can add Looper to the list of ex-closers doing wtf well as a starter.

LEE YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY ANYTHING WHICH IS THE POINT OF THE THREAD HINT HINT

Off-topic but on-topic in the "taking thread title literally" sense: SCOTT OLSEN (!?!?!?)

Not surprising: Jair Mothjerrfjuckjing Jurrjens. What is surprising, though, is his 7.46 K/9.

Yeah, after yesterday's start I grabbed him in the fantasy league. He looked good in an "I don't give a fuck about ANY of these chumps" way.

Ponson wtf.

every year there's always one or two dudes like this guy was in '00:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/smithch07.shtml

joe saunders

scott olson, tho he got rocked last night

Jon Lester is pitching really well so far today.

: D

Man I sure picked the right meaningless Royals game to go to. Never thought I'd see a no-hitter.

well they are often worse pitched than some one or two hit games.

well, you know, it takes a tremendous amount of luck to achieve a one or two hitter.

they are often worse pitched than three or four hitters.

haha, fuck you :)

(METS HAVE DONE FINE W/OUT ONE IN 46 YEARS)

best pitched game i ever saw live was when pedro struck out 15 and lost. to tampa. completely wtf.

excuse me, retrosheet.org tells me he struck out 17 and lost.

PITCHING
Tampa Bay Devil Rays         IP     H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR

Trachsel W(2-2)               9     3   0   0   3  11   0
Boston Red Sox               IP     H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR

P. Martinez L(5-1)            9     6   1   1   1  17   0

but Trachsel pitched better! HE GAVE UP HALF AS MANY HITS!

anyone see WGN rerun the 9th of Jim Maloney's no hitter vs the Cubs in '65, a few weeks ago during a rain delay? The guy walked TEN and threw something like 190 pitches!

Back when the game was played by MEN

pretty sure while w/ montreal pedro threw 9 perfect innings & ended up losing

that's not too impressive, a lot of bad luck involved there.

xp to Andy: MEN whose arms were dead at 31!

so what? all the hitters were either boozed up or hungover. EVEN PLAYING FIELD.

xp to Andy: MEN whose arms were dead at 31!

-- Dr Morbius, Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Back then, you didn't know whether you'd HAVE your throwing arm the next day -- lost to the combine out on the back forty, or combat, or what have you. You just threw like hell, left everything out there on the mound.

I once left my watch out on the mound, but that was not on purpose.

daniel cabrera, the consecutive reigning AL walks champion, pitched his third game WITHOUT issuing a walk this season last night. his three-peat is in peril as he has now tumbled out of the top ten on the heels of his 8th straight quality start.

Following Daver's stinging rebukes, I'd like to known if it's now OK to say that Lester pitched a NH.

Dana Eveland is pitching very nicely.

http://static.flickr.com/72/175995087_edd1f77f57_o.jpg

i saw andrew miller strike out 9 the other night, but i originally thought it was 13 or so, so i couldn't even imagine seeing 17

joe saunders is 8-1 w/ a 2.31 era right now

JUSTIN DUCHSCHERER

n/m

Cueto through five

Last Play: G. Blanco reached on bunt single to third

>:O

BRETTY MYERS OH MY THRU 6

Oh well

Greg Maddux still has it. He's perfect so far . . .

Ladies and Gentlemen, Bitter Cubsfan

I guess it's all part of what they call . . . gowring up.

If the modification that I suggested doesn't count as an acceptable dodge, then I agree with Scully. But I remember lots of announcers using those exact words who seemed to be under the impression they'd honoured the taboo.

I think the superstition comes from the fact that it can actually be hard to talk about things that haven’t happened yet. You don’t want to deaden the moment by being being all “He’s only seven outs away! Another out! Now there’s only six to go! It sure is gonna be great when he finishes that no hitter!!!”

I think the superstition comes from the fact that it can actually be hard to talk about things that haven’t happened yet. You don’t want to deaden the moment by being being all “He’s only seven outs away! Another out! Now there’s only six to go! It sure is gonna be great when he finishes that no hitter!!!”

Can't be wrong if you're silent (but you can be bad at your job)

Whoever started this thread clearly believed in the superstition.

You don’t want to deaden the moment by being being all “He’s only seven outs away!

lol that is utterly ridiculous (and lock thread, i guess, because we don't want to deaden any further moments after having done so for 17 years)

I was talking about for an announcer

By overhyping something. I was speculating that maybe that’s where the superstition came from?

I was accused of jinxing the Angels-Rays game yesterday by commenting on the fact that Caminero had 28 home runs and then he proceeded to hit two more

Kershaw 28 outs away from a perfect game right now; incredible

I was talking about for an announcer

i know! an announcer mentioning that a guy has thrown six no-hit innings is not 'deadening the moment' unless the announcer utterly drives it into the ground with every subsequent pitch (which has never happened)

also who exactly accused you of jinxing an angels-rays game, because the interested parties might very well include Satan?

My friend, it was a joke.

For the third time, I was speculating about where the superstition may have come from.

I think announcers do overhype things sometimes. It’s a line they have to tread.

I remember Jon Miller announcing during a perfect game in progress and he said something like "...and it's rather astonishing he has yet to allow a baserunner this game!"

Davis Schneider and Ernie Clement began tonight's Jays-Dodgers game by striking out on three pitches each. Dan Schulman: "And Snell is two-thirds of the way towards an Immaculate Inning." Next pitch, Guerrero up, ball.

You see? Even in small sample sizes, you shouldn't fuck around with tradition.

Brandon Young, perfect thru seven.

Baltimore v Houston. Brandon Young is on the Orioles.

Boo

Nolan Mclean has faced the minimum through 6 and has thrown 55 pitches (44 strikes).

His pitch chart must be crazy. His pitches go in a lot of different directions.

8IP 94P 4H 0W 0ER

Yamamoto hitless through 7, 95ip

Lol, *95 pitch count

3 more outs

8ip, 104 pitches. Roberts fighting his strongest impulses to put him back out there for the 9th. Do it Yoshi!

Awwwwhhhhh, solo home run with 1 out to go :(

Painted fastball on the inside edge to lose it. What can you do!

That was a heart breaker for sure

Is Treinen really going to blow this......

Life.... finds a way

Incredible.

You just gotta laugh.

Yoshi finally gets run support (3 runs!!!!), throws 8.2ip no hit ball, gets hit with the loss. It's kind of beautiful in a way

first time that's every happened apparently.. ahead in a no hitter w one out to go -> loss

* on a home run

Yikes

Glasnow 7 no hit innings, 11ks. 1-1 game (walk, steal, groundout to third, sac fly). Dodgers haters might wanna tune into this, see how the Dodgers blow a no-no again

Blake Treinen has just brought a no hitter into the 9th inning lol. Put Tanner Scott in!!!!!!!!

Dave's actually putting Tanner in for the 9th, going for the funniest outcome possible. No-no redemption arc!!!!!!

well

Amazing

I guess coughing up 3 runs would have been much more hilarious. The one hit just kind of sucks for Glasnow

Okay I'm way way way too early here, but Emmett Sheehan has thrown 4 perfect innings and it would just be so good to do this whole rodeo three times in four days

Hunter Greene just pitched a one hit complete game shutout vs. the Cubes

9 Ks and 1 walk

Pretty good

Game score of 93; Gausman's near-Maddux from a couple of weeks ago was a 91.

it was a day game the day after the cubs clinched a playoff spot, i suspect no one on the cubs was feeling 100% yesterday

I didn’t realize how cold Suzuki had gone along with everyone else, at the ASB he was looking like a possible bet for 40/120 on the season.

Yeah that whole Cubs OF has gone to shit: Tucker out for the season/year, Suzuki is ice cold, PCA is batting 8th (EIGHTH!)...

They looked ready to take the pennant around the ASB

PCA has like a 40% chase rate, he was never going to sustain that production tbf.

Max Scherzer through 0.2...wait, wrong thread. I was looking for the (Norm Macdonald voice) Thread for Starting Pitchers Who Are Getting Brutally Hammered.