{"id":655368,"date":"2026-03-31T22:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/655368\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:57:17","slug":"former-as-pitcher-broke-johnsons-d-backs-franchise-record-in-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/655368\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AS pitcher broke Johnson&#8217;s D-backs franchise record in debut\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only one game into his time with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/arizona_diamondbacks\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>, right-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/mike_soroka\/545447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Soroka<\/a> has already created comparisons with a franchise icon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his season and team debut on Monday night, Soroka, 28, was so dominant that he passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baseball<\/a> Hall of Famer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/randy_johnson\/336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Randy Johnson<\/a> for the most strikeouts in a pitcher&#8217;s first start with the Diamondbacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soroka&#8217;s new franchise record came during Arizona&#8217;s 9-6 win over the visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/detroit_tigers\/10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Detroit Tigers<\/a>. The former All-Star (2019) struck out 10 batters in just five innings of work. He also pitched a shutout, giving up only four hits and allowing only one walk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Soroka has set the bar very high for his 2026 season\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now 1-0 with a 0.00 ERA and a 1.00 WHIP, Soroka has set the bar extremely high for the rest of his 2026 season with his new team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only one game into his time with the Arizona Diamondbacks, right-handed pitcher Michael Soroka has already created comparisons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-655368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-diamondbacks","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116326265318344972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}