Victor Arano sets Major League Record

Phillies’ righthander Victor Arano has quietly (and lately, not so quietly, as anyone listening to Scott Franzke and the Kevins will attest) been the standout of the bullpen to start the season. He has appeared in seven games, with eight and a third innings pitched, ten strikeouts, and no walks or hits allowed.

To put that in other terms, he is two outs away from a perfect game’s worth of relief to start the year. That is a Major League record. Thanks as always to the Baseball-Reference.com Play Index for making queries like this humanly possible.

The previous record holder was erstwhile Phillie and contemporary Oriole Todd Frohwirth, who racked up eight perfect innings in 1991, but on June…