RHP Pablo López finished the moth of April with a 3-0 record and an MLB-leading 0.39 ERA in four starts.
Below please find highlights exemplifying Lopez’s historic April:
• López ranks in the top five in Major League Baseball in wins (T-4th, 3), opponents average (T-5th, .160), and WHIP (4th, 0.73).
• López is the 12th pitcher (13th occurrence, Roger Clemens did it twice) in Major League Baseball history to allow one run or less in his first four starts of the season while pitching at least 20.0 innings.
• López is the first starting pitcher to have an ERA of 0.39 or less in at least four starts in April since Texas’s Nick Martinez in April of 2015.
• López’s 0.39 ERA through his first four starts of the season is the lowest in Marlins club history.
• López has worked at least 5.0 innings in each of his starts and allowed no more than four hits in any start.
• López is on a current 18.1 scoreless innings streak. The Marlins club record for consecutive scoreless innings is 29.0 by Javier Vazquez in 2011. Lopez can move into second on the list, needing 7.2 scoreless innings to match Henderson Alvarez’s mark of 26.0 in 2014.
