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.