Not only did Furbush have a nice last outing, we had five pitchers, one from each of our top five farm clubs, go 7 or more innings with no BB's and at least 7 K's in their last outing. Check this out.
Jose Campos 8 IP 0 BB's 7 K's
Anthony Fernandez 9 IP 0 BB's 9 K's
Nathan Reed 8 IP 0 BB's 7 K's
James Paxton 7 IP 0 BB's 10 K's
Erasmo Ramirez 8.1 IP 0 BB's 11 K's (If you are wondering, they gave up a total of 5 earned runs)
In fact in their last ourings, we had twelve starters in our system give up 1 or less BB's in their last outing with a total of 82 IP, 6 BB's (!) and 85 K's (Starters were Walker, Kohlscheen, Butler, Elias, Fernandez, Campos, Paxton, Reed, Ramirez, Stanton, Carraway and Hensley). You may have noticed that includes the entire Clinton rotation.
Is the Mariner farm system suddenly emphasizing control or something? . . . Nah, probably just a freak coincidence; but a happy one. : )
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