Sunday, July 14, 2024

Newsletter Excerpt, July 13, 2024 -- The Skenes

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The no-hit bids, the successful girlfriend, the All-Star start...these are all nice, but is it enough, really? What Skenes needs is to be honored the way truly great pitchers are -- by having a stat named after him. In the tradition of The Maddux, invented by Jason Lukehart to signify a shutout thrown on fewer than 100 pitches, I present to you The Skenes: Starts of at least six innings with no hits allowed.