Pitching for a major league record-tying 13th team is hard to do. It doesn’t just take stamina to put in enough time required to pitch for 13 different teams. It requires some level of skill to be wanted by 13 different major league teams. Edwin Jackson has his fair share of both and each was on display during his 2018 debut against the Detroit Tigers yesterday. In doing yesterday what only one other player has ever done before Jackson did something he has never done before.
Yesterday, for the first time in his career, Jackson struck out exactly 7 hitters while walking exactly 0.