Braves’ Chris Sale becomes 2nd pitcher in MLB history with a day like this

Braves’ Chris Sale becomes 2nd pitcher in MLB history with a day like this originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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Chris Sale didn’t mind pitching in a day game on Wednesday.

The Atlanta Braves‘ left-handed ace was sharp, and he had a rare stat line by the end of his outing.

Sale ended up going 6.0 innings, allowing a single hit, a single run and striking out three.

Without a walk, Sale made it just the second time in MLB history those exact statistics had been achieved in a game, according to Pitchergami.

The first time? Kevin Jarvis on Sept. 21, 2000.

No Pitchergami.

Chris Sale | ATH @ ATL

6.0 IP | 1 H | 1 ER | 0 BB | 3 K

This stat line has been thrown 1 time before. The last time this was thrown was on 2000-09-21 by Kevin Jarvis.

— Pitchergami (@pitchergami) April 1, 2026

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This particular post has people questioning the methodology, but it’s not actually that confusing to figure out why this is a rare line from Sale.

Think about baseball for most of its existence — if a starting pitcher had gone six innings and allowed just one hit, one run and no walks, his day would not be close to over.

Only in this modern era do pitchers get pulled with a line like that. It’s early, and the Braves were rolling, and they didn’t have a reason to overdo it with Sale.

That allowed this odd bit of quirky baseball history, and on a day where the Braves won and Sale was sharp, the big lefty is surely just fine with how his outing went.