Rich Harden gets pulled mid-no-hitter
Posted by Andy on August 23, 2010
For the second time in a couple of weeks, a pitcher has been pulled deep into a game despite allowing no hits. Rich Harden was just lifted with two outs in the 7th having allowed no hits but 5 walks. The same thing happened to Kevin Slowey on August 15th.
August 23rd, 2010 at 10:14 pm
First game back from the DL.
August 24th, 2010 at 1:10 am
When a pitcher gives up 5 walks in less than 7 innings why do we still care that it was a "no-hitter"?
August 24th, 2010 at 1:27 am
Sorry to "Hi-Jack" this thread but tonight for only the 44th time in MLB history a Pitcher threw a 9 pitch 3 strikeout inning.
Rafael Soriano of Tampa Bay closed out the Angels in the 9th.
It's already been updated on WikiPedia.
Don't know if this Link will work...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_pitchers_who_have_struck_out_three_batters_on_nine_pitches
August 24th, 2010 at 5:05 am
@Mike Gaver
I guess there is no longer any reason to watch the last 2 innings of the game I TiVoed.
Thanks
August 24th, 2010 at 5:09 am
The Twins pulled Kevin Slowey, but they almost lost the game. They held on to win, 4-2. The Rangers,on the other hand, won their game, 4-0. Do the Rangers have better relievers or were they lucky?
August 24th, 2010 at 5:56 am
Jonathan-
I think it's just about impossible to make any determination by the two game sample size.
August 24th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Re #1, isn't every second or third start for Harden after coming off the DL?
August 24th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Ol' "Ninety-pitch Rich" was probably maxed out on his count. Why go through a 1-2-3 inning on 12-15 pitches when 35-40 will do?
August 24th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Speaking of pitch counts, Jaime Garcia had an 89-pitch CG Sunday. According to the pitching game finder, there have been only 20 games since 2000 with fewer pitches in 9 IP -- once by Rich Harden, in fact, 81 pitches on 2005-07-14.
I don't know if all of these games had accurate pitch counts, it could be even more rare. Aaron Cook had a 74 pitch game on 2007-07-25, and by looking at the Retrosheet event files it looks like there were no pitch counts missing. Carlos Silva also had a 74 pitch games on 2005-05-20. Those were the lowest pitch counts for 9 IP since 2000.
August 24th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Wayne Hagin has talked about Cook's game on Mets broadcasts.
August 25th, 2010 at 9:53 am
In today's (Aug. 25) bb-ref blog article on Ross Ohlendorf, I see there's a "related post" link to a 2007 bb-ref article about Cook's game.