04-14-2010, 02:40 PM
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Box-score line du jour -- a Rich Harden classic vs. Tor.: 3 2/3 IP 1 H 3 R 1 ER 5 BB 8 K 1 HBP 1 HR. At least he was unhittable. Uh, right?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->He needed 90 pitches to get 11 outs!
Just so you know what you're looking at here, baseball-reference.com's amazing Play Index tells us that Harden is the only pitcher since 1952 to unfurl a box-score entry like that one -- with that many strikeouts and that many walks, but only one hit, in an outing that didn't even last four innings.
He also joins only Bob Veale (1965 Pirates) and Ryan Dempster ('99 Marlins) to cram that many walks and strikeouts into an outing that short, no matter how unhittable they all were.
And who was the last pitcher before Harden to pile up that many strikeouts even though he never made it through the fourth inning? Well, in a not-so-coincidental development, that would be Harden himself, last April 15 against the Rockies (8 strikeouts, 9 outs).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Box-score line du jour -- a Rich Harden classic vs. Tor.: 3 2/3 IP 1 H 3 R 1 ER 5 BB 8 K 1 HBP 1 HR. At least he was unhittable. Uh, right?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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More from Stark:
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->He needed 90 pitches to get 11 outs!
Just so you know what you're looking at here, baseball-reference.com's amazing Play Index tells us that Harden is the only pitcher since 1952 to unfurl a box-score entry like that one -- with that many strikeouts and that many walks, but only one hit, in an outing that didn't even last four innings.
He also joins only Bob Veale (1965 Pirates) and Ryan Dempster ('99 Marlins) to cram that many walks and strikeouts into an outing that short, no matter how unhittable they all were.
And who was the last pitcher before Harden to pile up that many strikeouts even though he never made it through the fourth inning? Well, in a not-so-coincidental development, that would be Harden himself, last April 15 against the Rockies (8 strikeouts, 9 outs).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->