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In the modern era of baseball an era that spans 111 full seasons only two different pitchers have finished a season with enough innings to qualify for the ERA title and enough dominance to post a rate of at least 11 strikeouts per nine innings and a rate of fewer than six hits per nine innings . Pedro Martinez did this twice: in 1997, when he won his first Cy Young Award with the Expos, and in 2000, when he assembled one of the truly extraordinary pitching seasons the game has ever witnessed. But before Pedro, there was Hideo Nomo.
In his rookie season in 1995, with voluminous attention coming from two countries, Nomo sometimes stoically, sometimes gleefully, always explosively toyed with batters in ways that had literally never been seen before in the Majors. In 191 1/3 innings that season, Nomo struck out 236 batters and allowed 124 hits. He transformed himself from litmus test into All-Star starter and National League Rookie of the Year, and began a new era in the game.
In his Major League debut on Monday, the Rangers' Yu Darvish surrendered five runs in 5 2/3 innings with four runs coming in the first but earned the win.
Ichiro Suzuki went 3-for-5 in the Mariners' loss to the Rangers, giving the Seattle outfielder 223 career games with three-or-more hits. Ichiro's total of 223 has come in 1,754 games. For players whose careers began after 1920, those 223 through 1,754 games are the sixth most. Al Simmons had 261 for the most, and he is followed by Lloyd Waner (234), Paul Waner (232), Heinie Manush (229), and Stan Musial (228).
ZitoThe Giants' Barry Zito threw a four-hit shutout as San Francisco defeated the Rockies, 7-0, on Monday. The win was the first of the season for the Giants, who are 1-3.
Zito's four-hitter is the first shutout in the Majors this season. Last season, there were 75 the most in any year since 2002, when there were 87.
Zito's shutout is his first since April 18, 2003, when he beat the Rangers on six hits. Zito's shutout is the first by a Giants left-hander since Jonathan Sanchez threw a no-hitter on July 10, 2009.
The last time a Giants pitcher threw a shutout during the team's first four games was in 1978, when Jim Barr threw a seven hitter in San Francisco's second game of the season.
0-4In their home opener, the Twins lost to the Angels, 5-1, and dropped to 0-4 for the season. The last time Minnesota began the year 0-4 was in 1981. The Braves also dropped to 0-4 on Monday the first time since 1988 they've lost their first four games.
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