ATLANTA – Braves Rocky Spencer Stryder made history with another brilliant play Thursday night as he scored 12 runs in six innings against the St. Louis Cardinals and gave up just two hits.
It became the first fog since 1900 with at least 11 strikeouts and two or fewer hits in a row. Stryder scored 11 runs and dropped just one hit in last week’s win over the Reds.
This is an incredible start to the former fourth-round draft pick’s MLB career – he has scored 102 runs in 65⅔ innings this year, the fourth strikeout in the pitcher’s first eight careers in the last 30 years.
Stryder (4-2) regularly combined a fastball hitting 99 mph and a high 80K slider that was equally impressive, the first to record a strikeout in each of the first nine outs on Thursday. That’s what happened when the Braves started in Atlanta. . 1966.
“It’s good,” he said. “A lot of good pitchers have played for Atlanta. That’s fine. I wish we could have won too, but that’s good. ”
The 23-year-old striker left Paul Goldschmidt for a double bloop and Nolan Arenado, but dismissed Nolan Gorman to end the threat. He hit the side and faced Min in the second.
When Brendan Donovan was caught searching for a second of three, the hard-throwing right-hander was above 100 mph for the first time, his seventh strike before Juan Yepez was a clean vs. field single. Goldschmidt tries to finish the inning.
Arenado popped up to start fourth, the first the Cardinals put in the game. Left, Stryder scored three more runs.
Outing reduced his ERA to 2.60 during the season.
The Braves eventually lost Thursday’s game in extra innings, as Dillon Carlson hit a tiebreaking single at the top of the 11th inning to give St. Louis a 3-2 victory.
“It’s a game of inches and inches gave us so much,” said Brian Snytker, manager of the Braves.
Associated Press and ESPN statistics and information contributed to this report.