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So the Twins roll over and play dead for the O's again today.
Is it me or does it seem like everyone in the AL East (especially NY) just owns them but they play the Sox as if it's Game 7 of the World Series and their very life depends on it?
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The mayor's cup is the only thing they can legitimately compete for, so they carry the motivation from that rivalry through the regular season?
 
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Scherzer 8 Ks through 3 IP versus DET, 41 pitches. 1ER coming off the power bat of José Iglesias.


EDIT: 11Ks through 5.
 
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so as a fielder would you consider booting or throwing away an out chance in the 9th so as not to take a strikeout opportunity for your pitcher to get to 20?
 
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Settle for the tie, but a W for the W

Edit: And the pitch count really wasn't that bad for a vet - 119 pitches
 
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Thought he might get 21 after he completely blew him away with a fb down the middle on the first pitch, but 20 is incredible.
 
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Amazingly, all three 20 K 9 inning games had no walks.
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Make it all four now. Pretty amazing stat, but I guess when you think about it, you can't walk too many folks and keep the pitch count down low enough to get 20 k's.

Even more amazing to me, Scherzer threw 96 of his 119 pitches tonight for strikes. That is insane. Has anyone in the modern era ever thrown more strikes in a game?
 
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Deathofthebambino said:
Make it all four now. Pretty amazing stat, but I guess when you think about it, you can't walk too many folks and keep the pitch count down low enough to get 20 k's.

Even more amazing to me, Scherzer threw 96 of his 119 pitches tonight for strikes. That is insane. Has anyone in the modern era ever thrown more strikes in a game?
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As a percentage, there's no easy way to figure it out from BB-ref. I'd have to download everything in the DB to Excel and figure it from there. Not sure I have the bandwidth for that.
 
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Halladay's has to be the leader in the clubhouse - 86 strikes in 105 pitches - 81.90% (8/25/12 Phi vs Wash, W 4-2, 7 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 6 K) Scherzer is at 80.67%

And Bartolo Colon had 80 strikes in 99 pitches once for 80.81% (5/29/05 LAA vs KC, W 7-6, 7.2 IP, 12 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, 6 K)

Wells has done it twice - 81/100 (4/19/01 for CWS vs Det- W 4-2, 9 IP, 8 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 6 K) and 84/104 (8/30/97 for NYY vs Mon - L 7-2, 8 IP, 9 H, 6 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 8 K)

Found the Schilling game, 9/20/02 - LOL, he got pounded. 114 pitches, 94 strikes - 7.2 IP, 14 H, 9 R, 8 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
 
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I guess I'd be almost as interested in the actual total of 96 strikes as I would a percentage. I'm sure there are tons of games pre-"pitch count" era where guys threw more strikes, but I'd be shocked if anyone had done so in the last 20-30 years or so. 96 seems like a crazy high number, in a time period where 100 pitch games are getting rarer and rarer.
 
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Well, I was posting that when you guys threw those numbers up. Anyone know the breakdown of Wells and Schilling's games?

Edit: Wells, not Cone.
 
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