Or is the fact that he led Major League Baseball in Innings Pitched (293.2), Complete Games (24) and Batters Faced (1, 203) during that same season?
He has averaged a strikeout for every 2.59 batters faced and 82 of the 168 pitches he has thrown have either been swinging strikes or strikes by contact.
The six batters he faced before being lifted were not credited with an at-bat.
But he rebounded the next day, retiring the only two batters he faced to record the save.
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Walden was ahead in the count against the last three batters he faced, but he couldn't close them out.
Detroit closer Jose Valverde (0-1) entered in the ninth with a 5-3 lead after starter Max Scherzer retired the final 16 batters he faced.
Braves starting pitcher Mike Minor retired the last 18 batters he faced, but left for a pinch-hitter in the seventh with the score tied 3-3.
Braves starting pitcher Mike Minor retired the last 18 batters he faced, but left for a pinch-hitter in the seventh with the score tied 3-all.
After Kuroda retired the first two batters he faced, Markakis homered.
In the seventh, Clippard escaped a bases-loaded jam that he created by allowing Freeman's single that cut the lead to 3-2 and by hitting the next two batters he faced.
Mets lefthander Pedro Feliciano, who continues to wear a monitor on his chest to keep track of an irregular heartbeat, retired the two lefty batters he faced after replacing Harvey in the fifth.
In the seventh, Tyler Clippard escaped a bases-loaded jam that he created by allowing an RBI single to Freeman that cut the lead to 3-2 and by hitting the next two batters he faced.
Buck kept up his torrid pace with a two-run homer in the first inning, and Lucas Duda followed with a solo shot in the second before Mike Minor settled down and retired the next 18 batters he faced.
Not known as a strikeout pitcher, Hefner struck out the last six Atlanta batters he faced in a five-inning outing marred earlier by two home runs in the New York Mets' 5-2 win over the Braves on Friday.
He has struck out as few as 15% and as many as 31% of the batters he has faced in different years.
Hughes faced 10 batters, throwing 24 of 41 pitches for strikes.
The Mets' 2010 No. 1 draft pick (seventh overall) didn't allow a baserunner until Everth Cabrera singled to center field leading off the fourth and faced 22 batters, one over the minimum.
Aided by two double plays, the right-hander faced only three batters over the minimum.
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