Dodgers’ Emmet Sheehan throws six-no hit innings vs. Giants in MLB debut
Los Angeles Dodgers appropriate-hander Emmet Sheehan place aside forth a resounding effort in his huge-league debut on Friday in opposition to the San Francisco Giants (GameTracker). Sheehan did no longer allow a success in six innings forward of being lifted.
Sheehan struck out three batters and walked factual two through six innings. He threw 51 of his 89 pitches for strikes and generated four swinging strikes overall. Three of those came on his sinker, which averaged 95.6 mph. Sheehan additionally showed an 83 mph changeup and an 87 mph slider for the length of the game.
Sheehan change into lifted to commence the seventh inning in want of reliever Brusdar Graterol. Graterol therefore surrendered a single to left discipline off the bat of Thairo Estrada.
Sheehan, 23, had previously spent the season on the Double-A level. In 12 appearances (10 starts), he had accumulated a 1.86 ERA and a 3.83 strikeout-to-dawdle ratio. The Dodgers to beginning out with bought him as a sixth-spherical pick by manner of Boston School all the plot in which throughout the 2021 first-year amateur draft. Sheehan change into the 192nd pick of his class. Coincidentally, the only real diversified participant from the spherical and class to attain the majors is Seattle Mariners appropriate-hander Bryan Woo — he additionally started on Friday evening in opposition to the Chicago White Sox.
The Dodgers as a franchise maintain thrown 26 no-hitters. The latest of which happened all the plot in which throughout the 2018 season, when four pitches combined for a no-no on Can even 4 in opposition to the San Diego Padres.
Or no longer it’s value noting the Dodgers known as upon Sheehan attributable to hundreds of accidents to their rotation. Walker Buehler, Dustin Can even, Ryan Pepiot, Julio Urías and Noah Syndergaard are all unavailable for the time being.
The Dodgers entered Friday with a 39-30 file, inserting them 2d within the Nationwide League West and two video games on the assist of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
