April 23, 2005
Nine, No Runs, No Win
Roger Clemens leaves after seven shutout innings, but Mark Mulder pitches for all intents and purposes a complete game shutout. The only problem is that Qualls continued Clemens great work and put up two gooseggs himself. I haven't seen if Mulder is coming out for the 10th. He's only thrown 95 pitches.
Update: Mulder does start the 10th, giving up a single to Jason Lane.
Update: A double play helps Mulder get out of the inning only throwing six pitches.
Update: The Cardinals win it in the 10th on a Larry Walker RBI single. It's the frst extra-inning complete game shutout since Roy Halladay went 10 on 9/6/2003, and only the 2nd one since Dave Stewart did the feat on 8/1/1990!
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So, how many other 10 inning complete game shutouts have been pitched? :-)
poor roger.
he has had exactly 3 runs of run support in 28 IP and he hit 2 of those runs his own self.
23 scoreless inning streak.
since i doubt he'll ever pitch a no hitter, maybe his last record will be orel hershiser's scoreless IP streak...
we keep losing those extra innings games
we keep losing 1 run games...
sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Also Jack Morris in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series, though that's post-season play.
Reminds me of the 10-inning 1985 NYM-STL classic between Dwight Gooden and John Tudor. I think won by a homer from Caesar Cedeno in the 10th.
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MUlder goes 10?? That's a rarity these days, but with the 95 pitches through 9 it was probably a given that he'd go at least through the 10th inning.
I agree with Lisa, we keep losing 1 run games because the offense isn't doing very much outside of Craig Biggio and what the pitchers can do themselves with the bat. It's gonna be a long season in Houston if the offense doesn't wake up soon :(
Imagine what would have been had the Astros kept Beltran and if Berkman was healthy...probably would have been the WS favorite at this point.
That Roy Halladay 10-inning shutout was awesome. He only threw 99 pitches and was getting set to come out for the 11th when Bobby Kielty hit an RBI double.
But, uh, good for Mulder
Mulder would have been a good candidate for going 10 from the few times I've seen him play. Very little wasted motion and fairly efficient in his pitches.
Dang. Wish I'd seen that game. A ten inning shutout. That's really something. Hopefully, this is the beginning of more good things from Mulder this season.
Also, lots of complete games this year, from Buehrle to Florida to Mulder to Clemens to Pedro to Hudson. Man. That's a lot of good pitchers.
10 innings on only 101 pitches? WTF were the Astro hitters doing, that's 10 pitch innings to get three outs. Yeesh, work the count once in a while.
Is Roger going to be snake bit this year like RandyJ was last year?
