{"id":657584,"date":"2026-04-01T22:54:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657584\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:54:02","slug":"braves-chris-sale-becomes-2nd-pitcher-in-mlb-history-with-a-day-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657584\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves&#8217; Chris Sale becomes 2nd pitcher in MLB history with a day like this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Sale didn&#8217;t mind pitching in a day game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a>&#8216; left-handed ace was sharp, and he had a rare stat line by the end of his outing.<\/p>\n<p>Sale ended up going 6.0 innings, allowing a single hit, a single run and striking out three.<\/p>\n<p>Without a walk, Sale made it just the second time in MLB history that those exact statistics had been achieved in a game, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pitchergami\/status\/2039406701065941358\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to Pitchergami<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first time? Kevin Jarvis on Sept. 21, 2000.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No Pitchergami.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Sale | ATH @ ATL<\/p>\n<p>6.0 IP | 1 H | 1 ER | 0 BB | 3 K<\/p>\n<p>This stat line has been thrown 1 time before. The last time this was thrown was on 2000-09-21 by Kevin Jarvis.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pitchergami (@pitchergami) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pitchergami\/status\/2039406701065941358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/news\/terrance-gore-son-honors-dad-perfect-first-pitch-royals-home-opener\/0d6f0212372e3fa358873a70\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Terrance Gore&#8217;s son honors dad with perfect first pitch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This particular post has people questioning the methodology, but it&#8217;s not actually that confusing to figure out why this is a rare line from Sale.<\/p>\n<p>Think about baseball for most of its existence \u2014 if a starting pitcher had gone six innings and allowed just one hit, one run and no walks, his day would not be close to over.<\/p>\n<p>Only in this modern era do pitchers get pulled with a line like that. It&#8217;s early, and the Braves were rolling, and they didn&#8217;t have a reason to overdo it with Sale.<\/p>\n<p>That allowed this odd bit of quirky baseball history, and on a day where the Braves won and Sale was sharp, the big lefty is surely just fine with how his outing went.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Sale didn&#8217;t mind pitching in a day game on Wednesday. The Atlanta Braves&#8216; left-handed ace was sharp,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-657584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657584","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=657584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}