Rangers' Jacob deGrom pitched a game in a way never done in MLB history

The Texas Rangers were waiting for Jacob deGrom to take the mound.

A little injury uncertainty delayed his 2026 MLB season debut by a little bit, but he finally took the hill on Tuesday.

He wasn't perfect by any means, but deGrom did have a stat line never done before in baseball history.

The component to that bit of history: 4.2 innings, 6 hits allowed, 3 earned runs, 0 walks and 7 strikeouts.

That combination had never been done before, according to Pitchergami on X:

MORE: Terrance Gore's son honors dad with perfect first pitch

It's just the right combination of stats to have made it unique.

Pitchers for much of baseball history would've been given the full five innings to make them the pitcher of record.

It's also not common to allow that many hits with that many strikeouts but walk no one.

In his career, deGrom has done more impressive things than this.

It's definitely cool, though, that the way baseball stats work has allowed this to be a fresh occurrence in its own specific way.

More MLB news:

• Wrigley Field wind impacted potential HR by more than 100 feet
• Red Sox should've had a 3-pitch swinging strikeout, but it ended as a walk instead
• Shohei Ohtani ranks last in MLB in a stat, but it's not as bad as it seems
• Reds make umpire CB Bucknor look bad with ABS challenges
• This New York Times crossword clue is bizarre for baseball fans
• The rulebook strike zone doesn't actually match the ABS strike zone