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First 2 Games – Both Starts Each with 34.7% BF K’ed

Posted by Raphy on June 13, 2010

In the first start of his career, Stephen Strasburg became the first player in the current PI era (1920-1939, 1952-2009)  to begin his major league career with a start in which he struck out at least 50% of the batters he faced. Although he was not as dominant in his second start, Strasburg still struck out 8 of the 23 batters that faced him. Strasburg becomes the second player in the current PI era to begin his major league career with 2 games, both starts in which he struck out at least 34.7 % of the betters faced in each. The first was Karl Spooner, whose name will be forever linked with amazing baseball beginnings and careers that might have been. I don't know how accurate they are, but it is interesting to note the number of pitches that are credited to Spooner.

Rk Gcar Date Tm Opp Rslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS PO BK WP ERA WPA RE24 aLI
1 1 1954-09-22 BRO NYG W 3-0 SHO9 ,W 9.0 3 0 0 3 15 0 143 89 93 34 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.438 4.772 .891
2 2 1954-09-26 BRO PIT W 1-0 SHO9 ,W 9.0 4 0 0 3 12 0 127 83 88 34 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0.00 0.746 4.772 1.482
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 6/13/2010.

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6 Responses to “First 2 Games – Both Starts Each with 34.7% BF K’ed”

  1. Mark Says:
    June 13th, 2010 at 7:40 pm

    Nice! This is a bit off topic but I curious to know how many pitchers have pitched at least 7+ innings without striking out anyone and still getting the win. It's probably happened a lot before the 1940's but I'm more curious about recent players. Morrow had a recent game where he pitched 7 innings, got the win, and struck out only 1 so that's why I thought about it.

  2. WanderingWinder Says:
    June 13th, 2010 at 8:29 pm

    On a totally unrelated topic (as there isn't a good place at all for this and it's a current issue, I'm putting it on the newest post) the White Sox-Cubs game currently has dueling no-hitters into the sixth innings. What are the longest that both teams have no-hitters (or maybe even better, perfect games)?

  3. Gerry Says:
    June 14th, 2010 at 2:23 am

    For what it's worth, in 1976, two pitchers had complete game, 10-inning wins without any strikeouts; Jerry Augustine, 24 August, and Randy Jones, 30 May. I don't think anyone has done that since, but many pitchers have pitched 9 innings, struck out none, and got the win - about 25 in the last 20 years.

  4. Mark Says:
    June 14th, 2010 at 6:19 am

    Nice, thanks Gerry.

  5. Frank Clingenpeel Says:
    June 14th, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    To Wandering -- you mean, besides the double no-hitter between Two-Ton Toney and Hippo Vaughn, right?

  6. Josh Says:
    June 14th, 2010 at 9:15 pm

    To Mark:
    He didn't go 7 innings, but on May 23rd of this year Josh Johnson went 6 innings against the White Sox without a single strikeout and got the win.

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