My main strength as a blogger is finding cool ideas from other people and applying them to the Royals. The latest such idea to tickle my fancy is defense independent perfect games (DIPG), as dreamed up by David Wishinsky. He defined a DIPG as a nine inning game with no walks or home runs allowed. As suggested by Tom Tango, zero hit-by-pitches should also probably be included, which I have for my lists below. I have also included eight inning complete DIPG, of which there have been six in Royals history. There is yet to be an extra inning DIPG by a Royals player. There have been 96 regular season DIPG by the Royals, or about 2.2 per season. They have gotten more rare as complete games have; In the 2000s, there have been nine DIPG, or only .75 per season. No Royals pitcher pulled the trick in 2010 or '11.
Zack Greinke's insane start in 2009 shows up with four DIPG between April 18 and May 26. He only had eight starts in that span.
Kevin Appier might be the best pitcher in team history, but he only had one DIPG, and it came in an eight inning loss. Bret Saberhagen pulled the trick an impressive 15 times in the regular season, plus once in a pretty memorable World Series game seven.
Most DIPG games:
16: Bret Saberhagen
10: Mark Gubicza
7: Dennis Leonard
7: Larry Gura
6: Al Fitzmorris
5: Dick Drago
The team's record in DIPG is 84-12. Saberhagen took four of the losses.
Tom Tango also suggested making the definition stricter by requiring 13 strikeouts in an eight inning game and 15 K in a nine inning game (the reasoning behind those numbers being that the pitcher would have a 0.00 FIP for the game). No Royals player has reached that height. It has only happened 12 times since 1919 in all MLB. The most strikeouts a Royals pitcher has had in a DIPG is 10; Greinke did it twice, Mark Gubicza once and Rich Gale once.
The Royals have been on the wrong end of a DIPG 99 times; Catfish Hunter, Jimmy Key, and LaMarr Hoyt lead the way with three DIPG against the Royals each--except Hunter did it again in the '76 ALCS, the only pitcher to do it vs. the Royals in the playoffs.
The Royals have been on the wrong end of a DIPG 99 times; Catfish Hunter, Jimmy Key, and LaMarr Hoyt lead the way with three DIPG against the Royals each--except Hunter did it again in the '76 ALCS, the only pitcher to do it vs. the Royals in the playoffs.
The full list of Royals and KC A's DIPGs after the jump.
*eight inning complete game
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Post-Season:
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Post-Season:
| Rk | Player | Date | Series | Gm# | Opp | Rslt | H | ER | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bret Saberhagen | 1985-10-27 | WS | 7 | STL | W 11-0 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
Kansas City A's DIPG:
| Rk | Player | Date | Opp | Rslt | H | ER | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rollie Sheldon | 1965-08-28 | NYY | W 4-0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | Orlando Pena | 1963-07-28 | CLE | W 3-0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Bill Fischer | 1962-08-26* | MIN | L 0-1 | 8 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Ed Rakow | 1962-05-20 | WSA | W 1-0 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Ray Herbert | 1960-08-21 | CHW | W 8-1 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Dick Hall | 1960-05-21 | WSH | W 5-2 | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | Dick Hall | 1960-05-10 | BAL | W 10-0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | Bud Daley | 1959-06-01 | CHW | W 3-1 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Rip Coleman | 1959-05-30 | CLE | W 3-1 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Bud Daley | 1959-05-23 | CHW | W 16-0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 11 | Ralph Terry | 1958-08-22 | WSH | W 1-0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Dick Tomanek | 1958-07-18 | NYY | W 2-1 | 11 | 1 | 4 |
| 13 | Duke Maas | 1958-05-18 | DET | W 2-0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 14 | Alex Kellner | 1955-05-17 | WSH | W 1-0 | 8 | 0 | 4 |
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