Tribe splits with Yanks in front of larger-than-expected crowd
May 14, 2013In 2013 the Browns are betting on defense and hoping for offense
May 14, 2013Justin Masterson struck out nine batters and went the distance in a 1-0 win over the Yankees in the first game of Monday’s doubleheader. Per Elias Sports Bureau, the only other Indians pitcher who authored a complete-game 1-0 victory against the Yankees with at least that many strikeouts: Bob Feller. Rapid Robert did so in 1946 via a no-hitter at Yankee Stadium where he had 11 strikeouts.
Masterson also became the first Indians pitcher to record multiple 1-0 CG shutouts in the same season since 1989 when left-handers Bud Black and Greg Swindell both accomplished the feat twice, as Masterson also pulled the trick back in a 1-0 walk-off win on April 12 vs. Chicago. Black recorded wins on June 16 vs. Kansas City and Sept. 12 vs. Detroit, while Swindell’s victories came on May 28 vs Baltimore and June 7 at California. With six wins already this season, Masterson is now tied with Boston’s Clay Buchholz (6-0), Texas’ Yu Darvish (6-1) and Tampa Bay’s Matt Moore (6-0) for the A.L. lead – one behind Washington’s Jordan Zimmerman for the MLB lead. Masterson also leads the Majors with 63.0 innings pitched
When Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis’s turned a David Phelps 2-2 fastball into a 414-foot first-inning home run, it accounted for the only run of the Monday’s Game 1. It was the first time in the Indians’ 113-year history that they won 1-0 with a home run in the first inning. Two other teams defeated the Yankees by that score on the strength of a first-inning home run: the 1910 Tigers on a home run by Ty Cobb, and the 1965 Angels with a homer by Albie Pearson.
Kipnis now has five home runs on the season, all of which have come in the first inning of their respective games.
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Wait, so somebody actually tracks “Indians pitchers that have pitched a complete game 1-0 shutout of the New York Yankees with at least 9 strike outs”?
Amazing. You know things are never that bad in your society when something like this is somebody’s job.
But . . . how many times has it happened in a traditional double-header on a Monday in May with temperatures below 55 degrees and winds at 10 mph or greater? I mean, sit down, Rapid Robert! We have a new champion.
I’d like some stats on Kipnis having 5 HR, all in the first. That’s nuts!
Last year though, he was sixth in the American League in hitting right-handers he was facing for the first time…after the seventh inning…at home!
An interesting side note: that’s the 14th one-run game for the Tigers already this season, tops for any team north of the Mason-Dixon Line, whose home games are not played in a dome.
Lou, by the way, has hit .416 lifetime versus Hanley in the month of September in even years, so that certainly bodes well for this at-bat.
These are the sorts of stats I think about when people criticize sabermetrics. “WAR is garbage! Lets look at how well this guy hits righties in the first inning of the first game of a double header!”
Funny. These are the sorts of stats that I think about when I think about sabermetrics!
Amazing to me the baseball need for records. Give it a rest already.
BTW…today’s indians/phillies game will be the very first 1:05 game that Kluber has pitched against Cole Hamels in the month of May after the year 2012.