August 26, 2007
Deciding a Start
Tim Wakefield keeps deciding his own starts. He's now 16-10 in his 26 starts, meaning the game was decided by the time he left. As this Globe article points out:
He has a decision in all of his 26 starts, the first to reach that number since Jack McDowell posted decisions in his first 27 starts with the Chicago White Sox in 1993.
McDowell did not finish the season with all his starts going for decisions. In the last 50 seasons (I don't have pitcher records broken down by start before that), the record belongs to Gaylord Perry, who earned a win or loss in all forty starts he made in 1972, posting a record of 24-16. The closest since then was Bill Wegman, who made 18 starts in 1993, going 4-14. I can see where this might be easier for a bad pitcher, since you don't need to pitch five innings to get a loss. Of the twenty one pitchers from 1957 to 2006 who made at least ten starts and decided all of them, fifteen owned losing record. Which makes Wakefield's run all the more remarkable.
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