Just For Starters: Breaking Down Shane McClanahan's Great Outing vs. Marlins on Tuesday
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Shane McClanahan just keeps better and better with every start for the Tampa Bay Rays.
The ace left-hander pitched some more scoreless innings on Tuesday night against the Miami Marlins. He was dominant throughout, and worked out of trouble just fine when he had to.
He's now pitched a combined 20 innings in his last three starts, and allowed only one earned run. He also had nine strikeouts and has 74 on the season, which leads the major leagues. He passed Dylan Cease (71) of the Chicago White Sox, who also pitched on Tuesday.
Here are McClanahan's numbers on the night, and the cumulative stats for all Rays starting pitchers this season, plus the full VIDEO of his postgame press conference.
Rays' Starters By The Numbers
- Starter: Shane McClanahan
- Game: Tuesday (May 22) vs. Miami Marlins
- Decision: Won, now 4-2 on the season with a 2.06 ERA.
- Team result: Won 4-0, now 25-17 on the season.
- Innings pitched: 6.0
- Total pitches: 96
- Strikes: 64
- Runs allowed: 0
- Earned runs: 0
- Hits allowed: 4
- Walks allowed: 2
- Total strikeouts: 9
- Status upon departure: Shane McClanahan had another outstanding night for the Rays, pitching six scoreless innings. The pitch up got up quickly, but he always worked his way through traffic and he left with a 4-0 over the Marlins. Dusten Knight came in to work the seventh inning.
- The skinny: McClanahan has been on fire, and that continued on Tuefsday night. He has only allowed one earned run in his last 20 innings. An ace, for sure
Season Totals for Rays Starters
- Starters: Shane McClanahan (9), Drew Rasmussen (8), Corey Kluber
(8), Ryan Yarbrough (3), Jeffrey Springs (3), Josh Fleming (2), Luis Patino, Tommy Romero, - Games: 35 (7 openers, not included in numbers)
- Decisions: 12-9 through Tuesday
- Team result: 25-17 through Tuesday
- Innings pitched (avg.): 163.2/4.66
- - Season high innings: 7.0, Shane McClanahan (April 24, May 11, May 17)
- - Season low innings: 2/3, Luis Patino (April 11)
- Total pitches (avg.): 2,651/75.74
- - Season high pitches: 100, Shane McClanahan (May 11)
- - Season low pitches: 13, Luis Patino (April 11)
- Total strikeouts (avg.): 172/4.91
- - Season high strikeouts: 11, Shane McClanahan (April 30, May 11)
- Runs allowed (avg.): 66/1.89
- Earned runs (avg.): 62/1.77
- Hits allowed (avg.): 138/3.94
- - Season most hits allowed: 11, Corey Kluber (April 22, May 10)
- Walks allowed (avg.): 47/1.34
- Starter ERA: 3.41
VIDEO: Watch Shane McClanahan's postgame press conference
Tom Brew is the publisher of Inside The Rays, and has been with the Sports Illustrated/FanNation network for three years. He is an award-winning writer and editor who has spent most of his four-decade career at the Tampa Bay Times, Indianapolis Star and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has written four books.