On Wednesday night, Roy Hallady pitched 7 innings for the Toronto Blue Jays. He's gone at least 7 innings in every one of his 11 starts this year. So Baseball-Reference wanted to find out how close he was to the record for most starts with 7+ IP to start a season (I believe just post-1954). Well, he's really far away (will get to that in a second).
In the past 20 seasons, only Roger Clemens (14 in 1992) and Curt Schilling (13 in 2001) have had more, while Bill Wegman (1992), Kevin Brown (1993), Curt Schilling (1998) and Pedro Martinez (2000) all had 11.
But the leader on this list? Bob Gibson's incredible 1968 season where he had 34 starts to start the season with 7+ IP. You may say that sounds like a whole season. Well you would be right. From B-R: Those 34 starts to start the season with 7 IP? Those were all of his starts that year. Yeah, that’s right…the guy threw at least 7 innings in every start. In fact, he completed 28 of those 34 games (and also won the Cy Young, MVP, ERA and strikeout titles, and threw 13 shutouts.)
Wow. You'll probably never see anything like that ever again.
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