No hits, no runs
DANNY DUFFY racked up his first no-hit performance of the season Thursday night, shutting out the Frederick Keys over five innings.
Duffy faced 18 batters and allowed just four base runners, three on walks, one on a hit batsman, his first of the season. He struck out six.
He plunked the leadoff batter, he walked a man in the second, he walked a man in the third but promptly picked him off, and walked one in the fifth. The fourth went 1-2-3.
Nobody in a Keys uniform reached third base. Only one reached second.
Unfortunately, though Duffy departed after five innings leading 5-0, his Wilmington relief allowed five runs and the Lompoc lefty had to settle for a no-decision.
Still Duffy lowered his season’s earned run average to 3.22 and his strikeout to walk ratio to a sensational 108-36. In 109 innings he has allowed just 94 hits.
Duffy ranks #5 in the Carolina League in earned run average and #4 in strikeouts.
Both teams wore a variety of throwback Negro League jerseys in a tribute to the greats of the circuit. Coincidentally, the Blue Rocks did the same thing on Saturday in Duffy's prior start. Duffy had trouble getting comfortable in the vintage gear this time though and changed his uniform top twice, including a change to his usual Wilmington road gray from the third inning on.
In four starts against the Frederick Keys, Duffy is 2-0 and the team is 4-0. Frederick has mustered just one unearned run against Duffy in 24.1 innings.
Since a two-week absence from the hill due to lower-back stiffness, Duffy has allowed only one hit over nine scoreless innings, holding opponents to a .036 batting average (1-for-28).
And he’s still just 20 years old.
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