The Texas Rangers were waiting for Jacob deGrom to take the mound.
A little injury uncertainty delayed his 2026 MLB season debut by a little bit, but he finally took the hill on Tuesday.
He wasn’t perfect by any means, but deGrom did have a stat line never done before in baseball history.
The component to that bit of history: 4.2 innings, 6 hits allowed, 3 earned runs, 0 walks and 7 strikeouts.
That combination had never been done before, according to Pitchergami on X:
🚨 PITCHERGAMI 🚨
Jacob deGrom just threw a line that has NEVER happened in MLB history:
4.2 IP | 6 H | 3 ER | 0 BB | 7 K
TEX @ BAL
That’s the 20th Pitchergami of 2026 and 1 of 83,244+ unique lines on record.
— Pitchergami (@pitchergami) April 1, 2026
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It’s just the right combination of stats to have made it unique.
Pitchers for much of baseball history would’ve been given the full five innings to make them the pitcher of record.
It’s also not common to allow that many hits with that many strikeouts but walk no one.
In his career, deGrom has done more impressive things than this.
It’s definitely cool, though, that the way baseball stats work has allowed this to be a fresh occurrence in its own specific way.
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