Nine Innings – No Runs – Both Pitchers
Posted by Raphy on July 11, 2010
Yesterday, Roy Halladay and Travis Wood met up in quite pitching duel. Halladay threw nine shutout innings allowing only 5 hits and striking out 9 along the way. At the same time, in the same game, Wood was even better. Wood also pitched nine shutout innings, but did not even allow a base runner until the ninth inning . Eventually, the Phillies won the game in 11 with neither starter factoring in the decision.
A few notes on the feat:
- Halladay and Wood are the first pitchers to finish with at least 9 innings pitched and no runs allowed in the same game since September 6, 2003 when Halladay out-dueled Nate Cornejo.
- Both pitchers in yesterday's game posted a game score of at least 85 (Wood - 93, Halladay - 85). The last time this happened was May 28, 2002 in a classic duel between Jason Schmidt and Miguel Batista.
- The Reds were the first team to lose a game in which their starter posted a game score of 93 or higher since May 23, 1999, when the Devil Rays wasted a stellar start by Ryan Rupe.
- Halladay and Wood are the 3rd and 4 pitchers this season to pitch and least nine innnings ,allow no runs and walk away with a no decision. Here are the previous 2:
| Rk | Player | Date | Tm | Opp | Rslt | App,Dec | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | Pit | Str | GSc | IR | IS | BF | AB | 2B | 3B | IBB | HBP | SH | SF | GDP | SB | CS | PO | BK | WP | WPA | RE24 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edwin Jackson | 2010-06-02 | ARI | LAD | L 0-1 | GS-9 | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 123 | 80 | 84 | 30 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.668 | 4.258 | 1.351 | ||
| 2 | Colby Lewis | 2010-04-30 | TEX | SEA | W 2-0 | GS-9 | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 116 | 79 | 90 | 31 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.700 | 4.682 | 1.155 |
2010 is the first time since 2002 this happened at least 4 times in a single season.
July 11th, 2010 at 10:36 am
That was an incredible game. I must say, I was kind of hoping one of them would go 10 innings...
July 11th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Hey, Halladay did that last time, it clearly was not his turn.
July 11th, 2010 at 11:18 am
I loved the headline on ESPN.com: "Reds' Wood short of perfection as Phils win."
Couldn't that be said about any starting pitcher in any game ever...?
July 11th, 2010 at 11:21 am
On July 15, 1994 I attended both games of a doubleheader at Shea Stadium. In the second game, the starting pitchers combined for 18 innings and 0 runs allowed. One went 8 innings and the other went 10. The game was scoreless through 13 innings. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN199407152.shtml
I stayed for all 6 hours and 40 minutes of actual baseball.
July 11th, 2010 at 11:27 am
What's really scary is that both teams went so long without scoring in that Mets game, then both started scoring in the same inning.
July 11th, 2010 at 11:34 am
I guess it's not so much scary as it is interesting.
July 11th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Nothing beats a great pitching duel!
July 11th, 2010 at 11:58 am
Did anyone see a definitive replay of the ball that Halladay hit down the first base line in the 3rd inning. It really looked fair in the only replay that I saw. As the game progressed I kept having this thought of what an ironic situation it would be if Wood were able to pitch a perfect game because of a blown call by the first base umpire. The fact that it was Halladay hitting the ball, who was able to pitch a perfect game earlier this season with the help of a very generous strike zone, made it all the more strange.
July 11th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Two great ones - the double no-hitter of Toney / Vaughn, and the Harvey Haddix perfect game!
July 11th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
In my opinion, the Koufax perfect game {I think it was in '65} was probably a better-pitched game than either this one or the double no-hitter by Hippo Vaughan and Two-Ton Toney, even though Bob Hendley got nailed for an unearned run in this one.
July 11th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Re: 6
What is also interesting is that it wasn't the only game I attended that ended with a 2-1 Padres win over the Mets in 14 innings.
This was the other one- http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN200604210.shtml
Also, it's not like I'm a season ticket holder who has attended 500+ games in my life. I have only attended 38 games and this dates back to 1986. Yet, two of them have been 14 inning 2-1 Padres wins over the Mets- one at New York and one at San Diego.
July 11th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
What is it with this happening to pitchers so early in their career? This was Wood's third major league start, and that comparable game referenced to that Ryan Rupe pitched? His fourth major league start.
I'd be interested to know the earliest 90+ game score efforts in a player's career, I'm sure it's been done even sooner (Wilson Alvarez?).
July 11th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Scratch the previous thought, kinda. Alvarez's no-no in his second game was an 89, due to the walks. Forgot about Marichal's 96 game score in his debut that was talked about so much with Strasburg's debut.
July 11th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
[...] another post, reader Scott V. wrote the following about Travis Wood's game score of 93 yesterday: This was Wood's third major [...]
July 12th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Something was mentioned by one of the Phillies broadcasters in the home half of one of the extra innings that always irks me, but no one else has ever pointed out the fallacy of it.
The score was tied at 0-0, and there was one out and a runner on second. The batter was intentionally walked. The announcer mentioned that this guy who was being walked did not matter.
WRONG!
(The remainder of this post concerns situations in the home half of the 9th and extra innings in a tie game. Slight adjustments can be made for situations in which the home team trails by a small margin.)
If the runner on 2nd got thrown out at home (or 3rd or picked off 2nd) before the 2nd out was made, the guy who got the intentional walk would suddenly represent the go-ahead run.
The guy who got the intentional walk would not have mattered if there had been two out. On the other hand, if there had been nobody out and the bases had become loaded with two more batters without the original runner scoring or making an out, the two additional batters-turned-into-runners could have mattered, if the lead two runners were cut down on the base paths for the first two outs of the inning.
It's true that if the number of runners already on base equals or exceeds the number of outs still left in the inning, new runners don't matter. Well, in a way they do, because if a batter hits a walk-off homer, they count in various statistics such as runs scored, RBIs, and ERA.