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Mike Mussina
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Career Notes

1997
Took a perfect game into the ninth inning of the Orioles May 30 game vs. Cleveland before allowing a one-hit single to Sandy Alomar. He struck out 10 in the win, his seventh straight ... Tossed seven innings before allowing a hit on his way to a complete-game win at Milwaukee June 25, fanning 12, and allowing three hits and one run.

1996
Matched career high with 19 wins and set new highs with 243.1 innings pitched and 204 strikeouts ... Won six straight decisions from July 31-Aug. 24 ... Threw 11th career shutout on Sept. 7, striking out 11 ... Earned his first career Golden Glove Award for fielding excellence.

1995
The Orioles ace tied Greg Maddux for the Major League lead with a career-high 19 victories ... He was also among the AL top five in shutouts (first, 4), fewest baserunners per nine innings (T1st, 9.66), innings pitched (2nd, 221.2), opponents batting average against (3rd, .226), starts (T2nd,32), complete games (T2nd,7) and ERA (4th, 3.29) ... Mike enters the 1996 season with the highest winning percentage among active major leaguers at .703 (71-30) ... Had a string of 24.0 consecutive innings without a walk spanning from the last two innings of his April 26 start through the first three frames of his May 18 start ... From the seventh inning on, opponents batted just .226 (38-168) against Mike ... His August ERA was the lowest in Baseball ahead of next best Tom Glavine's 1.45 ... Put together a string of 26.0 consecutive scoreless innings, Sept. 21 through Oct. 1 as he ended the season with three straight complete game victories ... Finished fifth in the American League in the Cy Young balloting behind Randy Johnson, Jose Mesa, Tim Wakefield and Dave Cone.

1994
Tied for second in the majors with 16 wins (with Kansas City's Cone, Montreal's Hill and Atlanta's Maddux) ... His ERA of 3.06 was fourth best in the AL ... Tied a team record with 13 wins at the All-Star break ... Teamed with Ben McDonald to form the most successful starting tandem in the majors with 30 wins.

1993
Third season with the Orioles ... Went 14-6 to lead the Orioles in wins for the second year in a row, despite missing six weeks with a shoulder injury ... Established the second-best active career winning percentage among pitchers with more than 50 decisions, with a 36-16 record (.692) ... Was the youngest pitcher on the All-Star team for the second year in a row ... His ERA through June 7 was seventh in the American League at 2.86, but was 6.37 through the rest of the season (13 starts) ... Was sixth in the AL with 2.36 walks per nine innings ... Only nine runners attempted to steal on him. Only three were successful, the third best ratio in the AL ... His run support of 6.12 runs per game was third best in the league.

1992
Finished 18-5 with a 2.54 ERA ... His .783 winning percentage was best in the majors and fourth-best in Orioles history ... Pitched into the eighth inning or later in 21 of his 31 starts ... Was the youngest Oriole in the All-Star Game since 1960 ... Posted an 11-2 record on the road ... Started the season with a five-game win streak and ended the year with seven straight wins.

1991
Began the year with Class AAA Rochester ... Called up to Baltimore July 31 ... Lost his major-league debut Aug. 4 vs. Chicago, despite giving up just one earned run in 7 2/3 innings ... Ended the year 4-5, but his 2.87 ERA was the lowest among AL rookies with at least 10 starts.


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