[SPOTV News = Shin Won-chul] Mason Miller (San Diego Padres) moved past Hall of Famer Randy Jones to register the second-longest streak of consecutive scoreless innings in franchise history.
Miller’s run sits at 30⅔ consecutive scoreless innings—just three innings shy of Clay Meredith’s club mark of 33⅔. He’s done more than keep runs off the board; he’s barely allowed hits, and the question now is how far this streak can go.
On April 17 (Korean time), Miller came on in relief at Petco Park against the Seattle Mariners, protected a 5-2 lead and picked up the save. He worked a dominant inning and recorded three strikeouts.
With a three-run cushion, he struck out JP Crawford, Mitch Garver and Cole Young. Seattle used two ABS challenges to try to overturn calls, but the plate umpire’s strike rulings stood and Miller closed out the game.
He froze Crawford looking with an inside, low slider, then struck out Garver looking with a 102.5-mph (about 164.9 km/h) four-seam fastball down in the zone. His matchup with Young reached a full count, but Miller finished it on a sixth-pitch slider that the umpire called a strike.
Including the April 17 appearance, Miller has thrown 9⅓ scoreless innings across nine outings this season. Counting last season, his streak now stands at 30⅔ scoreless innings—surpassing Jones’s 30 and ranking as the second-longest such streak in Padres history.
Jones debuted with San Diego in 1973 and retired with the New York Mets in 1982. He spent eight seasons in San Diego and reached his peak when he won the 1976 National League Cy Young Award.
Miller’s strikeout numbers have been historic. He’s faced 30 batters this year and struck out 23 of them, a 76.7% strikeout rate. MLB.com reported that this is the highest strikeout rate any pitcher has posted through the first nine games of a season in the last 120 years.
Padres manager Craig Stammen said it’s special to see Miller standing alongside Jones in the record books. Jones is one of the greatest pitchers in San Diego history, and Stammen suggested Miller is already in that conversation.
Now it’s not runs but hits that make headlines. Miller has allowed only one hit this season—the lone exception coming from Luis Arráez, who played in San Diego last year and now stars with the San Francisco Giants.
With dominant closer Miller leading the way, the Padres have won eight straight and sit at 13-6, holding second place in the National League West behind the Los Angeles Dodgers (14-4).
