In his Tuesday start against the Miami Marlins, Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg threw one of the best games of his injury-plagued career: 7.1 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, 14 K. He didn’t allow a runner past first base until the eighth inning. In 110 pitches, he threw 80 for strikes.
But his most impressive achievement came in the top of the fourth, when Strasburg did his best impression of Jiro Ono and carved up the Marlins with three strikeouts on nine pitches—his first career immaculate inning.
There really is nothing quite as satisfying as an immaculate inning.