I was sitting down to write this, and then noticed that Jake Mailhot over at LL (and Fangraphs now?) wrote a great summary of what I was going to do here. So…uh, yeahhhh. You could just go read Jake’s article, which’ll probably be more concise.
So, as Jake has elegantly laid out, one of the striking things about last night’s game was just how *different* it was to Paxton’s last start, a start that looked more like traditional dominance. I’m not going to get into the debate over whether no-hitters are a statistical irrelevance; I think they’re cool, and I was pumped when Seager threw out Josh Donaldson last night.