Pirates pitcher Nick Kingham is nearly perfect in big-league debut
Nick Kingham accomplished something Sunday that only one major-league pitcher had achieved in the past century.
In his big-league debut, Kingham carried a perfect game into the seventh inning to lead the Pirates to a 5-0 win over St. Louis in Pittsburgh. He joined Johnny Cueto (then with the Reds) in 2008 as the only pitchers in the past 100 years with one hit allowed, at least nine strikeouts and no walks in his debut.
“That’s how you plan it up, not to let anybody on,” Kingham said. “It’s incredible how it happened. Just kind of starting from the get-go, it went well. ... It’s corny, but it took everybody. I’m really fortunate and really happy about it.