In 15 starts with the Pirates dating to last August, Ivan Nova has walked four batters and pitched four complete games. His strikeout-to-walk ratio is 67-to-4. If there are two more amazing stats in baseball going, please share them.
Nova pitched seven strong innings Sunday to lead the Pirates to a 2-1 win against his former team, the New York Yankees. What seemed like big news, though, was that he walked pitcher Jordan Montgomery in the third inning, the first baserunner he allowed. It was Montgomery’s first at-bat since high school. He had to borrow teammate Austin Romine’s bat.