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The quality start was developed by sportswriter John Lowe in 1985 while writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer. [1] He wrote that it "shows exactly how many times a baseball pitcher has done his job." [2] The quality start was created to be an accurate measure of a starting pitcher's performance. [2]
[3] [6] Dodgers starting pitchers won both of their Opening Day starts in their first home ballpark in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. [3] [4] Clayton Kershaw's nine Opening Day starts for the Dodgers from 2011 to 2018 and 2021 are the most ever by a Dodgers starter, two more than Don Drysdale and Don Sutton. [3]
Eisler Liván Hernández Carrera (Spanish pronunciation: [liˈβan eɾˈnandes]; born February 20, 1975) is a Cuban-born former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball. Over a 17-year career, he played for nine different teams and was named to two All-Star Games. He was named the MVP of the 1997 World Series with the Florida Marlins.
In the early years of Major League Baseball before 1900 it was common for an exceptional pitcher to win 30 or more games in one season, [citation needed] with Old Hoss Radbourn of the defunct Providence Grays holding the record with 60 wins in 1884. [4] Since 1900, however, pitchers have made fewer and fewer starts and the standard has changed.
Manager Terry Collins chose Cueto to start the 2016 Major League Baseball All-Star Game for the National League, making him the first Giants pitcher to start the All-Star game since Matt Cain in 2012. He started with his battery mate, Buster Posey who was the starting catcher for the National League, and received the loss, as the NL lost 4–2.
Despite a poor final outing, in 13 starts, he went 2–3 with a 4.33 ERA, led the NL in quality starts with 9, and led all pitchers in inducing 15 double plays. His 2.0 strikeout-to-walk ratio was the lowest among NL qualified pitchers, but finished 14th in wins above replacement among NL pitchers at 1.9, as calculated by Baseball Reference .
The MLB on Fox pre- and post-game broadcast set at Progressive Field in Cleveland during its coverage of the 2016 World Series. Major League Baseball (MLB) has been broadcast on American television since the 1950s, with initial broadcasts on the experimental station W2XBS, the predecessor of the modern WNBC in New York City.
Cy Young, the all-time leader in career starts. 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 ...