Halladay’s first game with the Phillies
Posted by Andy on April 7, 2010
I credit the Phillies radio announcers on WPHT for this one. I was listening to that game online and they mentioned that Halladay was high on the list of most strikeouts a pitcher's first game as a Phillie. We can't search for that exactly (because the Pitching Game Finder doesn't have an option for first game with a new team) but we can find similar results with the streak finder (which does have the new team option.)
Halladay became the 3rd pitcher to have at least 9 strikeouts in his Phillies debut. As you can see, Jim Bunning did it in each of his first two games with Philadelphia. This is post-1920.
| Rk | Strk Start | End | Games | W | L | GS | CG | SHO | GF | SV | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | HBP | WP | BK | Tm | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jim Bunning | 1964-04-15 | 1964-04-24 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 0.50 | 2 | 0 | 0 | PHI |
| 2 | Roy Halladay | 2010-04-05 | 2010-04-05 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 1.29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | PHI |
| 3 | Garrett Stephenso | 1997-05-13 | 1997-05-13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 2.57 | 1 | 0 | 0 | PHI |
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