I had an idea for a new statistic: GTC. Got to Closer. The stat had a half-life of about twenty seconds.
My idea was that, while Complete Games are virtually extinct, we could count something close to complete games by counting how often the starting pitcher got the ball to the closer. Have to define what’s a “closer”, but. .. we can deal with that.
But then I checked how many of these there actually were. Full schedule of games on Sunday (June 8), no complete games. You know how many starting pitchers got the ball to the closer?
Zero.
Oh, well. . .