Reid Detmers turned in the start of a lifetime on Tuesday night in Anaheim, no-hitting the Rays in a 12-0 Angels victory. It was the 12th no-hitter in Halos history and first since the team’s emotional combined no-hitter on July 12, 2019, with Tyler Skaggs’ number on their backs in the team’s first game after his death.
Here are 12 facts and figures from the second no-hitter of the 2022 season.
• The Angels picked Detmers 10th overall in the 2020 Draft out of Louisville. He’s one of only three players from that first round to appear in a Major League game so far, along with Tigers first baseman Spencer Torkelson and White Sox lefty Garrett Crochet. And now he has a no-hitter on his resume.
• Detmers is the 25th pitcher with rookie eligibility remaining to throw a no-hitter. Amazingly, both of the past two no-nos thrown by individual pitchers both came from rookie lefties: Arizona’s Tyler Gilbert last Aug. 14, and now Detmers. (There were also two combined no-nos in between). But Gilbert was even less experienced than Detmers, accomplishing the feat in his first MLB start, and fourth appearance overall.
If we instead consider age, at 22 years and 306 days old, Detmers became the youngest pitcher to throw a no-hitter since Anibal Sánchez in 2006 (22 years, 191 days).
• In 10 previous Major League starts — five in 2021 and five this year — Detmers averaged a little more than four innings per outing. His longest was six innings, and his longest so far in…