Game score

"[2] James has noted that there are cases in which his original version of game score does not accurately reflect a pitcher's performance.

[3] In a September 2003 article in Baseball Prospectus, Dayn Perry created an updated formula based on the ideas behind defense-independent pitching statistics, named Game Score 2.0.

[4] In December 2014, statistician Tom Tango made another attempt at updating the formula, which he also called "Game Score Version 2.0".

The second highest nine-inning game score is 104, which occurred on October 3, 2015, when Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals allowed no hits and no walks, striking out 17, against the New York Mets.

Eight pitchers had two 100-point game scores: Art Nehf (1917 and 1918), Joe Oeschger (1917 and 1920), Burleigh Grimes (1918 and 1920), Eric Erickson (1918 and 1921), Herb Pennock (1923 and 1925), Jim Maloney (1964 and 1965), Frank Tanana (1975 and 1976), and Max Scherzer (both 2015).

)[12][13] On June 18, 2014, Clayton Kershaw posted the second highest ever game score for a nine-inning, no-hit effort.

[14] The lowest game score in baseball's modern era was Allan Travers' 26-hit, 24-run start for the Detroit Tigers on May 18, 1912.

This performance only came about because the regular Tiger players staged a strike in protest of Ty Cobb's suspension.

To avoid a forfeit, local college players (including Travers) were enlisted as impromptu fill-ins.

The lowest game score since 1957 was Oakland pitcher Mike Oquist's, who allowed 16 hits and 14 earned runs in five innings on August 3, 1998, for a −21.

[16] The total number of game scores listed for each pitcher are starts in which he reached 90 points or higher.

In this "perfect score" scenario, the pitcher would have to strike out every hitter he faced, netting him an additional 27 points, for a grand total of 114.