38pitches got knocked around pretty nicely last night, giving up 6 ER on 10 hits in just 4.1 innings.

Amazingly, he had zero strikeouts in this start.

Turns out he's had 3 such games, as summarized here:

 Cnt Date          Tm   Opp GmReslt App,Dec    IP   H  R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GmSc

+----+-------------+---+----+-------+---------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----

    1 2007-06-18    BOS @ATL L  4-9  GS-5  ,L   4.1 10  6  6  2  0  1  81  50   17
    2 1993-07-01    PHI @STL L  5-14 GS-3  ,L   2.2 11 11  7  1  0  0  72  47   -1
    3 1988-10-02    BAL @TOR L  3-9  GS-2  ,L   2    4  7  5  1  0  0  54  34   23

I remember that game in 1993. The Phillies were 52-25 at the time, on their way to their most recent post-season appearance.

I don't have a good feel for whether 3 no-strikeout starts is a lot or a little, so I did a similar search for games for other active strikeout leaders:

Rank Player Zero K Games
+------+-----------+--------------
1 Clemens 9
2 Johnson 6
3 Maddux 16*
4 Schilling 3
5 Pedro 1
6 Smoltz 4
7 Mussina 10*
8 Glavine 32*

*All of these plays won at least a couple of these starts with no strikeouts. Glavine, for example, won 10 of these starts.

So overall, Schilling is doing fine avoiding such games.

I'll come back at some point in the future with career leaders for games won with zero strikeouts.

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