Very tough losses
Posted by Andy on January 6, 2009
Here are the last 20 times a pitcher got a loss in a complete game effort while allowing 0 earned runs.
Cnt Player Date Tm Opp GmReslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS Pk BK WP ERA +----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+---------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+--+--+--+------+ 1 Mark Buehrle 2008-05-02 CHW @TOR L 0-2 CG 8 ,L 8 5 2 0 0 7 0 100 74 75 29 29 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2 Darren Oliver 2003-08-31 COL @LAD L 0-3 CG 8 ,L 8 4 3 0 0 2 0 88 60 70 29 29 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 3 Barry Zito 2003-08-07 OAK @DET L 2-3 CG 8 ,L 8 6 3 0 1 3 1 117 78 66 31 29 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0.00 4 Jamie Moyer 2002-09-14 SEA @OAK L 0-1 CG 8 ,L 8 3 1 0 2 7 0 113 73 79 30 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 5 Ramon Ortiz 2002-04-23 ANA @SEA L 0-1 CG 8 ,L 8 5 1 0 1 8 0 107 66 77 29 28 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 6 Woody Williams 2000-09-23 SDP @LAD L 1-2 CG 8 ,L 8 5 2 0 1 9 0 119 80 76 30 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 7 Mike Sirotka 2000-07-23 CHW @BOS L 0-1 CG 8 ,L 8 5 1 0 2 4 0 125 78 72 31 28 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 8 Greg Maddux 1999-09-18 ATL MON L 3-4 CG 9 ,L 9 8 4 0 1 8 0 103 72 70 37 35 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 9 Tim Belcher 1998-09-06 KCR @ANA L 0-3 CG 8 ,L 8 7 3 0 3 1 0 113 70 60 35 32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10 Kenny Rogers 1996-05-28 NYY @CAL L 0-1 CG 9 ,L 8.1 2 1 0 3 6 0 119 66 80 31 27 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 11 Mark Leiter 1995-08-27 SFG @MON L 0-1 CG 8 ,L 8 4 1 0 2 6 0 96 63 76 30 26 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00 12 Salomon Torres 1995-07-21 SEA @TOR L 3-4 CG 8 ,L 8 7 4 0 2 5 1 128 81 63 34 32 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 13 Kevin Tapani 1994-06-27 MIN KCR L 1-2 CG 9 ,L 9 5 2 0 0 8 0 106 76 81 32 31 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 14 Chuck Finley 1993-09-22 CAL CHW L 0-1 CG 9 ,L 9 4 1 0 4 5 0 136 82 78 36 30 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 15 Bill Wegman 1993-05-07 MIL BOS L 0-1 CG 9 ,L 9 4 1 0 3 2 0 94 58 76 31 25 0 0 1 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 16 Tom Candiotti 1992-08-31 LAD @CHC L 0-2 CG 8 ,L 8 2 2 0 1 7 0 104 68 80 29 27 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 17 Doug Drabek 1992-08-11 PIT @NYM L 0-2 CG 8 ,L 8 7 2 0 4 4 0 125 76 64 37 32 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 18 Bill Wegman 1992-05-13 MIL CHW L 0-1 CG 9 ,L 9 7 1 0 1 6 0 130 81 76 34 33 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0.00 19 Joe Hesketh 1992-05-08 BOS @KCR L 1-2 CG 8 ,L 8 3 2 0 2 5 0 96 62 75 29 26 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0.00 20 Jim Abbott 1992-04-29 CAL @TOR L 0-1 CG 9 ,L 8.2 9 1 0 4 7 0 127 80 67 36 32 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0.00
And here are the 25 guys who pitched 2 or more such games in their career.
Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Wilbur Wood 3 Ind. Games Bill Wegman 3 Ind. Games Phil Niekro 3 Ind. Games Charlie Hough 3 Ind. Games Don Cardwell 3 Ind. Games Fernando Valenzue 2 Ind. Games Dick Tidrow 2 Ind. Games Kevin Tapani 2 Ind. Games Rick Reuschel 2 Ind. Games Fred Norman 2 Ind. Games Carl Morton 2 Ind. Games Andy Messersmith 2 Ind. Games Mickey Lolich 2 Ind. Games Denny Lemaster 2 Ind. Games Rick Langford 2 Ind. Games Tommy John 2 Ind. Games Fergie Jenkins 2 Ind. Games Larry Jackson 2 Ind. Games Steve Hargan 2 Ind. Games Dick Ellsworth 2 Ind. Games Don Drysdale 2 Ind. Games Reggie Cleveland 2 Ind. Games Bert Blyleven 2 Ind. Games Tim Belcher 2 Ind. Games Floyd Bannister 2 Ind. Games There's that man Bert Blyleven again. I sure hope he gets into the HOF.
January 6th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Here's another simple list that puts Blyleven in his rightful company:
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/5672
January 7th, 2009 at 1:19 am
I know the Bly love...
Have to point out that Good ol Kittle just OWNED Bly.
Bly just happened to be the pitcher Kittle faced the most in his career...
The results?
50 PAs (44 ABs)
14 hits
9 Hrs
16 RBIs
1.335 OPS
Good Stuff.
Also like that it was Buehrle that has had the only CG loss w/ 0 ERs in the last 5 years.
January 8th, 2009 at 12:43 am
According to the PI, if you rank the CG, no ER pitchers with a loss since 1956 by most pitches, Mike Boddicker comes out on top (1990-08-17, 142 pitches in 9 IP), followed by Chris Bosio (1988-05-11, 138 pitches in 8 IP). Chuck Finley, 14th on the above list, is 3rd.
Bob Hendley had the least number of pitches in such a game, 76 in 8 IP (1965-09-09). Hendley lost 1-0 to Sandy Koufax, who had 113 pitches -- it was Koufax's perfect game. Hendley had only 3 SO and allowed only 1 hit and 1 BB (26 BF), while Koufax had 14 SO, which helps account for the difference in pitch count. Lou Johnson had the only hit in the game, but that didn't lead to the lone score -- Johnson also got the BB, was sacrificed to 2B by Ron Fairly, stole 3B, and scored on an error on the steal play.
Unfortunately, pitch data is available for only 43 of the 198 games where this occurred, so these are not necessarily the actual least and most pitches in a CG loss with no ER.