Bud Norris notches 7th best start in career in LAD debut

♦ July 2, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

Does it bode well for the LAD that Bud Norris has pitched two of the best games of his career in back to back starts?

You couldn’t have asked Bud Norris to do any more than what he did on Friday night in place of Clayton Kershaw.  Norris not known as a strikeout pitcher struck out eight in only six innings, while shutting out the potent Rockie offense.

Historically, using game score as the metric, this was the 7th best start in the career of Bud Norris.

Date Opp IP H ER BB SO GmScr
5/1/11 MIL 7.2 3 0 3 11 81
9/26/12 STL 7.1 2 0 0 7 81
9/12/14 NYY 7 3 0 2 10 79
6/9/14 BOS 8 3 0 3 6 79
6/26/16 NYM 7 4 0 0 8 77
8/12/11 LAD 7 2 0 4 8 77
7/1/16 COL 6 2 0 1 8 75

Bud Norris has made 177 starts so when your 176th  and 177th starts,  are two of the best starts of your career, you start to wonder if an old dog has learned new tricks as suggested by Jeff Sullivan in this Fangraphs article on June 27th.

 

 

 

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