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.

can't have felt good for framber to lose the perfecto on that error in the bottom of the 6th

Just saw this now, don't think it was mentioned:

https://www.mlb.com/news/corey-seager-spoils-second-no-hitter-with-two-outs-in-ninth

“Just walk him” - managers the next time this comes up

That, or plunk him. "That's for the other two times"--send a message.

(Yes, I'm kidding.)

He did it against the Giants too, I watched that game.

austin slater, who has 1 homer for the year, just broke up sean manaea's no hitter in the 6th with a homer ;_;

The Jays' Bowden Francis gave up 1 hit in 7 innings two starts ago, 3 hits in 7 innings his last start, and today hasn't given up a hit in 5 innings against the Angels.

Six innings, 11 K, 82 pitches, team going nowhere...hey, you never know.

Seven innings, 12 K...but he's walked three and hit a guy, so he's up to 97 pitches. Looks like they're sending someone out for the 8th. Asterisk: he's facing a lineup today that has Kevin Pilar hitting third.

Four hits in 21 innings, or over three consecutive starts of 7+ innings, that must be a team record at least.

Wow, they sent him out for the 8th.

And this is hilarious: it's raining in the Rogers Centre!

Eight! 111 pitches--he'd never thrown more than 95. Good luck, John Schneider.

Jeff Passan tweeted “Let Bowden finish”

They're going to send him out for the 9th. Pillar bats third--bad omen.

So exciting!!!

Nooooooo

Oh that’s unfortunate

You wouldn't believe this: MY CABLE/INTERNET WENT OUT just as the inning was about to start! So I missed the HR. I was screaming many colourful curse words at the top of my lungs thinking I'd miss the no-hitter.

If anyone was going to break it up, glad it was Taylor Ward (thinking about what happened last year). Weirdly enough, Dave Stieb lost a no-hitter on this day in 1985 when Rudy Law hit a HR to lead off the 9th (nothing on YouTube):

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA198508240.shtml

He'd get much, much closer than that before finally pitching one in 1990--still the only one in Jays history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLYzhzkpoDI

(The caption says "with one strike to go"--one pitch to go, yes, but the count was 2-0, so not one strike.)

Uhhhhhhhhhh..... Patrick Corbin?!?!?

I tune in to see how has kept the yankees scoreless for 6 innings, to a mound visitation for Corbin who is at 100 pitches. They let him stay in and he gets the pop up.

This is more impressive to me than a no-hitter. Go Corby!!!!

i'm hearing framber valdez is doing something cool again

Skubal holding the triple crown again after tonight's game.

So the Cubs! Imanaga/Pearson/Hodge!!!

good for them

logan gilbert has a 1-hitter through 7 innings, 79 pitches

sulser (opener) and alexander thru 6 for TB v phils

ah well nevertheless

bowden's got another no no going

whoops!

sorry if i jinxed it :o)

What in the wide wide world of sports is going on with this guy?!

just a huge hr by lindor

I did not care for it

Tigers had it perfect to the 8th. Still a no-no

Gunnar Henderson does not respect the no-no

Martín Perez v the Twins

93 pitches...maybe he has one more inning. And, you know me, after that it loses all meaning.

They fucking pulled him and gave up a hit three batters later lol

(Glad for the alert--my negativity is directed at the game of baseball and the inexorable drift of history.)

crochet through five against his former team *checks notes* the chicago white sox

literally walks the next batter

no-hit alive through six tho

Max Fried through 6 (77 pitches).

7/92...5 minutes from my sister's, hope I can catch the end.

In case you missed the weird ending to this yesterday:

https://athlonsports.com/mlb/yankees-announcer-under-fire-after-exposing-official-scorer-during-max-fried-controversy

Michael Kay's reaction not very thoughful.

Nice pitching duel between yamamoto and Grant Holmes rn.

Betts hits a homer as my finger hovers over the send button. Dodgers got a chance at a no-no, Yama probably goes 8

Insane thing to post

Smith-shawver thru 7