Nymet31
08-26-2003, 05:15 PM
For the week of 8/24:
NEW YORK -- It isn't often a pitcher has consecutive starts better than Steve Trachsel's performance last week. As a result, he's been named the National League Pepsi Player of the Week.
Trachsel was 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA in starts against the Rockies and Dodgers last week. He pitched 16 1/3 innings and allowed just six hits with no walks and seven strikeouts.
His 8-0 complete-game victory on Monday against the Rockies was a one-hitter, his second this season and the third of his career. The only baserunner he allowed was a sixth-inning double to Colorado pitcher Chin-Hui Tsao.
Trachsel followed that game with a 4-0 decision over the Dodgers on Saturday night. He went 7 1/3 innings in that game, allowing five hits.
The victory was also the fourth in as many starts for Trachsel (13-7), who now has a pair of four-game winning streaks this season and lowered his ERA to 1.45 in five August starts (4-0). He is two victories shy of equaling his career high, a mark he reached in 1998 with the Cubs. He fanned four and didn't walk a batter, extending to 19 innings his streak without issuing a base on balls.
"I don't know if I've ever had a better stretch, but this is as good as I've had," said Trachsel. "I felt good and that's the biggest thing. It's been a lot of different things each time out and I'm sure [the opposition has] gotten reports on my last game. But it's been something different [working] in each start and it helps.
"[On Saturday], I had three pitches going. Five days ago I only had two. But [on Saturday] I had the fastball working with the curveball and the splitter. Physically I feel the best I've felt in weeks. That means that something is around the corner."
It was the first Player of the Week Award for Trachsel
NEW YORK -- It isn't often a pitcher has consecutive starts better than Steve Trachsel's performance last week. As a result, he's been named the National League Pepsi Player of the Week.
Trachsel was 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA in starts against the Rockies and Dodgers last week. He pitched 16 1/3 innings and allowed just six hits with no walks and seven strikeouts.
His 8-0 complete-game victory on Monday against the Rockies was a one-hitter, his second this season and the third of his career. The only baserunner he allowed was a sixth-inning double to Colorado pitcher Chin-Hui Tsao.
Trachsel followed that game with a 4-0 decision over the Dodgers on Saturday night. He went 7 1/3 innings in that game, allowing five hits.
The victory was also the fourth in as many starts for Trachsel (13-7), who now has a pair of four-game winning streaks this season and lowered his ERA to 1.45 in five August starts (4-0). He is two victories shy of equaling his career high, a mark he reached in 1998 with the Cubs. He fanned four and didn't walk a batter, extending to 19 innings his streak without issuing a base on balls.
"I don't know if I've ever had a better stretch, but this is as good as I've had," said Trachsel. "I felt good and that's the biggest thing. It's been a lot of different things each time out and I'm sure [the opposition has] gotten reports on my last game. But it's been something different [working] in each start and it helps.
"[On Saturday], I had three pitches going. Five days ago I only had two. But [on Saturday] I had the fastball working with the curveball and the splitter. Physically I feel the best I've felt in weeks. That means that something is around the corner."
It was the first Player of the Week Award for Trachsel