13 April 2014

O's Starters Put Up Consecutive 7+ IP, 0 ER Performances

Last night, in the Orioles' eventual 2-1 win over the Blue Jays in 12 innings, Bud Norris pitched seven innings of scoreless baseball. On Friday night, Chris Tillman also pitched well, lasting eight innings and allowing zero earned runs. Two runs did score against Tillman, though, thanks to a couple of Jonathan Schoop errors.

So I decided to use the Baseball-Reference.com Play Index to find out how many times Orioles' starters last season had outings of at least seven innings and zero earned runs. Here are the results (sorted by innings pitched):

Rk Player Date Tm Opp Rslt App,Dec IP ▾ H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GSc
1 Scott Feldman 2013-09-06 BAL CHW W 4-0 SHO9 ,W 9.0 5 0 0 1 3 0 106 74 79
2 Freddy Garcia 2013-05-30 BAL WSN W 2-0 GS-8 ,W 8.0 3 0 0 0 6 0 113 72 82
3 Wei-Yin Chen 2013-04-26 BAL OAK W 3-0 GS-8 ,W 8.0 2 0 0 2 5 0 106 68 81
4 Chris Tillman 2013-05-02 BAL LAA W 5-1 GS-8 ,W 8.0 3 0 0 2 3 0 114 73 77
5 Chris Tillman 2013-07-26 BAL BOS W 6-0 GS-7 ,W 7.0 2 0 0 3 8 0 115 72 78
6 Miguel Gonzalez 2013-09-26 BAL TOR W 3-2 GS-7 ,W 7.0 2 1 0 1 5 0 106 70 75
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 4/13/2014.


Scott Feldman was the only O's starter to throw a complete game shutout last season. I also briefly discussed that random, fantastic Freddy Garcia performance against the Nationals from last May.

So now the Orioles have put together two such performances. It doesn't necessarily mean anything, especially since we're not even to mid-April yet, but it's interesting nonetheless. And Tillman, through three starts, may be pitching the best he ever has with the Orioles.

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