Yea, He’s Good
Dave · June 30, 2008 at 9:42 pm · Filed Under Mariners
No shame in getting shut out by Roy Halladay. He’s awesome.
Tonight was his 6th complete game of the season. The Mariners team has 7 complete games… since the start of the 2007 season. 7 CG’s in their last 244 starts for the M’s, one more than Halladay has in 17 starts this season.
Or, put another way, here’s the Complete Game Leaderboard for 2008.
Team CG Halladay 6 CLE 6 TBR 5 CHW 3 LAA 3 BOS 3 MIN 3 TEX 3 ARI 3 MIL 3 OAK 2 KCR 2 ATL 2 LAD 2 PHI 2 STL 2 SDP 2 NYY 1 BAL 1 SEA 1 DET 1 CHC 1 WSN 1 COL 1 PIT 1 NYM 0 SFG 0 CIN 0 HOU 0 FLA 0
Yea, he just tied Cleveland for the major league lead in complete games. By himself. Uh huh.
Against Peavey, Santana and Halladay, the Ms went 2-1. No shame in that at all…
Guess Dickey has earned a start or two more….Two runs isn’t bad…(though I wish the announcers wouldn’t emphasize the number of pitches for Dickey…I really don’t think they mean as much for him as it would for other pitchers…)
I thought the same thing. Dickey kept up with Halladay as along as he could but it was not to be.
Positive note: No wasted at bats on Vidro today.
*as long*
that was a topic on the postgame ’round table’– general amazement at the complete games (with a side wander into Valle invoking Blyleven and citing his 242 CGs as a reason for HOF inclusion)
I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when at the start of the M’s ninth, with a 2-run lead, Niehaus said that Roy had thrown 108 pitches and no one was warming up. Then he said it was his 6th CG, and I was floored.
I know there’s that general line of thinking these days that “the complete game is obsolete,” but the old-schooler in me thinks that Halladay’s durability is pretty darned impressive.
It’s not endurance, it’s efficiency. His complete game pitch totals have been 110, 117, 107, 112, 104, and now 115 pitches.
Strikes and groundballs are a great combination for getting through nine innings often.
Dave — definitely that too. That’s amazing that he hasn’t reached 120 on the count in any of those games.
And I agree — he’s awesome. Absolutely deadly when he’s on his game…which is often.
The list left out one team, in a manner of speaking (TOR: 2). Other than Halladay, Dustin McGowan and Jesse Litsch have one each for the Blue Jays. McGowan also got his against the Mariners, as you may remember.
I’ve always been a big fan of Halladay, so getting shut out by him is nothing to be embarrassed about.
LL says that Felix is hitting the DL….sad face.
There are VERY few pitchers I slap the title “Ace” onto. Roy Halladay is one of them.
Yeah, Roy Halladay is good if you like complete game shutouts and Cy Young awards.
But you know who else is also good? William Bloomquist.
He got a hit off Halladay, but was skillful enought to make it only a single so that his consecutive games streak without an XBH continues.
History in the making….
My first game at safeco was a Roy Halladay complete game. Little did I know that I was watching that year’s Cy Young winner, not to mention what a Cy Young even is…
gwangung –
its not really all that impressive either if you consider that they went against those pitchers and the offenses that support them. Turns out our offense is better than SD’s. Woooo.
Doc throws a complete game against us and The King goes on the DL…in looking back at the trade posts, imagine what kind of haul Toronto could get for Halladay…