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Minnesota Twins Starter Making Team History to Start Season

Sonny Gray hasn't allowed a home run yet this season, doing something that no Twins pitcher has done since 1944.

Brady Farkas

Minnesota Twins Starter Making Team History to Start Season
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Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Sonny Gray is off to a historic start this season.

He currently leads all of baseball in ERA at 1.64 but what's historic is his ability to keep the ball in yard.

The Twitter account @StatMuse has the information:

Sonny Gray this season: 

49.1 IP 

1.64 ERA (1st) 

0 HR allowed (!!) 

10.95 K/9 

First Twin with 0 HR allowed in first 9 starts of a season since 1944.

In the era of the home run, it's certainly amazing to see not one player connect for a round-tripper against Gray through nearly 50 innings.

In addition to the sparkling 1.64 ERA, Gray is 4-0 for the first-place Twins. He's struck out 60 batters in those 49.1 innings.

For his career, Gray is 94-77 with a 3.50 ERA. He made his major league debut in 2013 with the Oakland Athletics, spending 2013- part of 2017 with Oakland. He was with the Yankees for part of 2017 and all of 2018 before going to the Reds (2019-2021) and the Twins (2022-now).

Gray was a first-round selection out of Vanderbilt (No. 18 overall) in the 2011 draft.

The Twins are currently 25-21 on the season and will finish out a series with the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday at 4:07 p.m. ET.

Major League Baseball ERA leaders, entering play on May 21

1) Sonny Gray, Twins (1.64)

2) Alex Cobb, Giants (1.94)

3) Gerrit Cole, Yankees (2.01)

4) Shane McClanahan, Rays (2.05)

5) Bryce Elder, Braves (2.06)

t) Eduardo Rodriguez, Tigers (2.06)

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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