Chien-Ming Wang gets zero strikeouts
Posted by Andy on June 25, 2007
I wrote last week about Curt Schilling's start with zero strikeouts, and the Yankees' Chien-Ming Wang equaled the feat over the weekend. He didn't get hit as hard as Schilling, but the Yankees did lose the game.
I started wondering how often a starter gets no strikeouts in a game. Searching the PI for just 2007 starts with no strikeouts, turns out it's happened 102 times already this year!
The leaders by innings pitched in a game with no strikeouts:
Cnt Player Date Tm Opp GmReslt App,Dec **IP** H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP ERA +----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+---------+--------+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+--+--+------+ 1 Steve Trachsel 2007-05-28 BAL @KCR W 9-1 CG 9 ,W 9 5 1 1 3 0 0 104 62 70 33 30 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.00 2 Chris Sampson 2007-06-02 HOU STL W 8-3 GS-8 ,W 8 6 3 3 1 0 1 90 52 57 30 27 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.38 3 Mike Maroth 2007-05-27 DET CLE L 3-5 GS-8 ,L 8 6 5 5 5 0 2 107 58 45 32 26 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.62 4 Joe Kennedy 2007-05-20 OAK SFG L 1-4 GS-8 ,L 7.1 8 3 3 1 0 2 103 62 49 31 28 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 3.68 5 Adam Wainwright 2007-06-18 STL KCR L 3-5 GS-7 ,L 7 9 5 4 1 0 1 88 58 40 33 30 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 5.14 6 Steve Trachsel 2007-06-13 BAL WSN L 6-9 GS-7 7 6 4 4 2 0 1 105 65 47 27 25 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.14 7 Brian Bannister 2007-05-26 KCR SEA L 1-9 GS-7 ,L 7 8 4 4 2 0 1 106 72 43 30 28 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.14 8 Matt DeSalvo 2007-05-07 NYY SEA L 2-3 GS-7 7 3 1 1 3 0 0 89 55 64 26 23 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.29 9 Jon Garland 2007-04-28 CHW LAA L 0-3 GS-7 ,L 7 5 3 3 1 0 1 102 69 54 26 25 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.86 10 Russ Ortiz 2007-04-20 SFG ARI W 4-2 GS-7 ,W 7 8 2 2 2 0 0 95 60 51 31 27 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.57 11 Ramon Ortiz 2007-04-17 MIN @SEA W 11-2 GS-7 ,W 7 8 2 2 0 0 2 92 58 53 28 27 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.57 12 Orlando Hernandez 2007-04-03 NYM @STL W 4-1 GS-7 ,W 7 5 1 1 2 0 1 104 62 61 25 22 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 1.29 13 Zach Duke 2007-04-02 PIT @HOU W 4-2 GS-7 7 8 2 2 1 0 1 80 49 52 26 24 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.57
Some interesting tidbits about the whole list (not just the partial list above):
- Steve Trachsel is the only starter to throw a complete game or pitch more than 8 innings this year with no strikeouts
- But in fact 14 times this year a start has been the winning pitcher in such a game
- Zach Duke has had no strikeouts in a start 4 times this year
- Five other guys have done it three times: Woody Williams, Joe Kennedy, Scott Elarton, Aaron Cook, and the aforementioned Steve Trachsel. All of these guys got lit up in at least one of their qualifying starts.