Nine years ago, Jake Arrieta was not only at the pinnacle of his own ability, he was at the pinnacle of any pitcher’s ability. His second half in 2015 will stand up among the best half-seasons in baseball history for a very long time. From June 21 through the end of the season, Arrieta put up an 0.86 ERA over 20 starts, and his LITERAL WORST START was a 6.0-inning, 3 earned run, 6 hits, 3 walk, 8 strikeout performance. That was, for him in this stretch, an absolute disaster of an outing. A quality start!
Within that run, Arrieta made one of the best starts of all-time, no-hitting the Dodgers in Los Angeles, while walking just one and striking out twelve. That start, an incredible moment on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN, was nine years ago today: