Aug. 13, 2008

BEIJING - Stephen Strasburg Numbers from tonight's United States Olympic baseball game against Netherlands
Score: USA 7, Netherlands 0 (Final, 8 innings)
Strasburg current line: 7.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 11 K, 1 BB

1 - Hit allowed. A clean single with two outs in the seventh inning to break up the no-hit bid.
2 - Number of batters out of the 23 he faced that he went to a three-ball count on.
3 - Number of balls in play that reached the outfield (a base hit up the middle and two fly outs to center field).
6 - Number of pitches he needed to work through the sixth inning. Five of the six pitches were for strikes.
11 - Strikeouts. He recorded 21 outs: 11 strikeouts, six ground outs, two fly outs (both to center field), a pop out (to shortstop), a line out (to first base).
13 - He retired the first 13 batters he faced (striking out eight of those hitters).
16 - Of the 19 pitch sequences that included a third pitch by Stasburg, 16 were for strikes.
54 - Went 54 pitches without throwing consecutive balls. He opened 2-0 to the first batter of the game and did not throw consecutive balls again until the first two pitches to the second batter in the fifth inning. He eventually walked that hitter, the first Netherlands player to reach base safely.
93 - Total pitches through seven innings. Included in that total were 60 strikes.