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In baseball statistics, a pitcher is credited with a game started (denoted by GS) if he is the first pitcher to pitch for his team in a game. Cy Young [1] [2] [3] holds the Major League Baseball games started record with 815. Young is the only pitcher in MLB history to start more than 800 career games.
Robert Glenn Ray (born October 1, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners.
Hiroki Kuroda was the Dodgers' Opening Day starting pitcher in 2009. Brad Penny was the Dodgers' Opening Day starting pitcher in 2008. Orel Hershiser made four Opening Day starts for the Dodgers in the 1980s and 1990s. Chan Ho Park was the Dodgers' Opening Day starter in 2001. Hideo Nomo made two Opening Day starts for the Dodgers in 2003 and 2004.
New York Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt (36) pitches in the first inning against the Kansas City Royals during game three of the NLDS for the 2024 MLB Playoffs at Kauffman Stadium.
These pitchers, and the sequence in which they pitch, is known as the rotation. A team's best starter is known as the ace, and is almost always the first man to pitch in the rotation. In modern baseball, a five-man rotation is most common. [1] In contrast, a pitcher who enters the game after the first pitch of the game is a relief pitcher.
Pitching for the Lancaster JetHawks of the High-A California League in 2014, Hader and two relief pitchers combined to throw a no-hitter on May 13. [7] After pitching to a 9–2 record with a league-leading 2.70 ERA and 112 strikeouts in 103 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings, the Astros promoted him to the Corpus Christi Hooks of the Double-A Texas League in ...
Michael John Graydon Soroka (born August 4, 1997) is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Atlanta Braves and Chicago White Sox. He made his MLB debut in 2018 with the Braves.
He was named the SEC Pitcher of the Week on April 1 after throwing a complete-game shutout against the Georgia Bulldogs in which he struck out 13 batters while allowing only two hits. [15] Thompson finished his junior year with a 6-1 record and a 2.40 ERA over 14 starts, striking out 130 batters in ninety innings, earning a spot on the All-SEC ...