Washington pitchers have 14 quality starts in 19 games
Although the Nats lost Thursday night to the Padres, 2-1, Edwin Jackson completed an amazing run through the rotation. Here are the numbers for the Nats starters in the last five games – 30.2 innings, 19 hits, 1 earned run, 7 walks, 31 strikeouts. That’s a WHIP of 0.85 and an ERA of 0.29. Jackson’s start was not as clean, but the other four are strikingly efficient. Here are the Nats’ last five starts:
IP-H-ER-BB-K (NP)
Jackson (ND) 6.2-6-0-3-6 (105)
Zimmermann (W) 6-4-1-0-6 (82)
Gonzalez (W) 6-2-0-2-6 (91)
Strasburg (ND) 6-4-0-1-6 (94)
Detwiler (W) 6-3-0-1-7 (79)
In all, the Nats have had 14 quality starts (6 innings, no more than 3 ER) in 19 games. At that rate, the Nats would finish the year with 119 quality starts. Last year the Phillies had 108 quality starts, the most for a major league team in at least 12 years. Stephen Strasburg and Jordan Zimmermann have gone 4-for-4 in quality starts, Gio Gonzalez is 3-for-4. Here are the Nats other quality starts.
Strasburg vs. CHC 7-5-1-1-5 (82)
Zimmermann vs. CHC 7-6-1-0-4 (80)
Strasburg vs. NYM 6-2-0-3-9 (108)
Gonzalez vs. CIN 7-2-0-0-7 (97)
Zimmermann vs. CIN 7-3-1-2-3 (100)
Jackson vs. CIN 9-2-1-1-9 (92)
Strasburg vs. HOU 6-6-2-1-5 (93)
Gonzalez vs. HOU 7-2-0-2-8 (91)
Zimmermann vs. HOU 7-4-1-0-3 (86)
They also have three starts that came up one inning short of “quality.”
Detwiler vs. NYM 5-2-0-1-6 (71)
Detwiler vs. CIN 5-6-1-2-2 (81)
Jackson vs. NYM 5-4-3-2-6 (78)
The only Nats starts that didn’t come close to qualifying were:
Gonzalez vs. CHC 3.2-7-4-3-6 (74)
Jackson vs. HOU 5-7-5-0-5 (89)
