Blue Jays GDT: (2015 v34) Next: @ NYY| Fri, Sept 11| 7pm ET/4pm PT | Price vs Servino

[Canada4Gold]

Colby Lewis is now perfect through 7 innings

I hope someone bunts against the shift to break it up. That would be glorious

 

[Acoustic]

Why 3 of 4? I'd be aiming for 4 of 4.

Well of course.

 

[Eyedea]

Always gotta have mediocrity like Braden, Humber, and now potentially Lewis sprinkled into the perfect game list.

(I'll add that Braden's was nice though with the whole narrative)

 

[TF97]

Colby Lewis with only 2 K's as well. Looks like he has won the BABIP lottery.

I've been watching the game (as I do with most A's games) and there has only been a few hard hit balls with a few nice plays from the Rangers.

 

[Acoustic]

Colby Lewis with only 2 K's as well. Looks like he has won the BABIP lottery.

Getting a lot of strike outs isn't necessarily the best thing for a pitcher to do in every situation.

 

[UNB Bruins Fan]

Always gotta have mediocrity like Braden, Humber, and now potentially Lewis sprinkled into the perfect game list.

That's what makes baseball so great.

 

[Acoustic]

Always gotta have mediocrity like Braden, Humber, and now potentially Lewis sprinkled into the perfect game list.

Perfect game is a perfect game. These guys are all MLB players...

 

[TF97]

Always gotta have mediocrity like Braden, Humber, and now potentially Lewis sprinkled into the perfect game list.

(I'll add that Braden's was nice though with the whole narrative)

Then guys like Brandon Barnes who have hit for the cycle

 

[The Nemesis]

It's hard to comment on this stuff because the commercials are not the same across all networks, but that Downey commercial with the joggers is hilariously creepy. Random woman has a bunch of guys smell her clothes on the side of a secluded mountain road? If the ad spot ran just 5 seconds longer we might see the cops jump out of the bushes, hit the guys with tasers and arrest them.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Getting a lot of strike outs isn't necessarily the best thing for a pitcher to do in every situation.

Yeah, if you want to keep the pitch count down, it's obviously better to get a bunch of fortunate 1 or 2-pitch ground outs or fly-balls.

 

[Loosie]

we gave up runs? Yankees closing the gap?

 

[Acoustic]

Yeah, if you want to keep the pitch count down, it's obviously better to get a bunch of fortunate 1 or 2-pitch ground outs or fly-balls.

Do you really think a good game plan is to strike out 27 batters and getting a ground ball or fly ball out is just mere luck?

 

[The Nemesis]

Perfect game is a perfect game. These guys are all MLB players...

But at least according to Buck, not all of them are necessarily baseball players.

 

[Epictetus]

New thread: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?p=106721229#post106721229

 

[TF97]

But at least according to Buck, not all of them are necessarily baseball players.

So, are you saying that they're nothing but a bunch of posers?

 

[The Nemesis]

Do you really think a good game plan is to strike out 27 batters and getting a ground ball or fly ball out is just mere luck?

I don't think that's what he's saying at all. But the surest way to get an out is via strikeout. Any ball hit into play has a chance to land for a hit. So the more times the ball gets hit into play, the greater the chance that at least one of them will drop fair and break up the no-hitter/perfect game. So to get as far as Lewis has without a hit and while only finishing off 2 batters on his own, he's walking an ever more dangerous tightrope.

I would be interested in seeing what the history of no-hitters/perfect games is in terms of the fewest strikeouts recorded in the process.