Comments on: Most starts, 2 ER or fewer, first 60 games of the season

By: Johnny Twisto

Johnny Twisto — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:24:51 +0000

Use the Pitching Gamelog Finder. Under "Role" select Starter. Under "Additional Criteria..." selected ER less than or equal to 2. Choose In Team's First 60 Games. Then sort by Players With Games in Year.

By: sacho11

sacho11 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:23:54 +0000

Can someone let me know how you look up a stat like this? It'd really help me out. Thanks.

By: gerry

gerry — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:22:17 +0000

In the days of 4-man rotations, pitchers were more likely to pitch 9 innings than they are today, which made it harder to keep the earned runs down to 2 or fewer.

By: mmayes

mmayes — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:33:50 +0000

J.R. Richard in 1980. 12 of those starts in his 1st 14 starts. Then his "dead arm" hit, leading to the stroke. He was off to a great season. J.R. could have propelled the Astros to the Series that year.

By: kingturtle

kingturtle — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:21:36 +0000

Coleman, Wood, Timmermann, Perry, Holtzman, Palmer all in the 1972 American League had these great starts. You can see why the American League panicked and went with the DH. Three of them came back to perform the feat again in the DH-era: Palmer (1978), Perry (1974), and Holtzman (1973). Take that, DH!

Personally, I hate the DH. To quote Crash Davis: "there should be a constitutional amendment outlawing astroturf and the designated hitter." Astroturf is now on the demise. So too should be the DH.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:23:12 +0000

I went back and did a streak finder like Raphy did in his post about Volquez a couple of weeks ago. Turns out he just tied John Tudor for longest streak since 1956 to start a season with 2 or fewer ER in each start:

http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/GfaU