Jackson Ferris kept rolling Wednesday, and the reward was rare company.
The left-hander handled the final six innings in relief as the Oklahoma City Comets beat the Sugar Land Space Cowboys 8-6, a win that pushed Oklahoma City two games ahead of Sugar Land in the second half Pacific Coast League standings with 10 games remaining. Ferris struck out seven, allowed one run on two hits, and was credited with a six-inning save.
That finish capped a wild night that started with Gavin Stone on the mound for his first game in two weeks. Stone was beginning a new rehab assignment while on the 60-day injured list, but the outing unraveled fast. He needed 32 pitches to get just two outs, both on strikeouts, while also issuing two walks and giving up two hits, including a three-run homer.
Chris Campos took over and kept the inning from getting any worse, stranding the runner to close out the first. He then gave up a solo home run in the second, finishing with three strikeouts and one run allowed over 1 1/3 innings.
The Comets answered immediately. They put up three runs in the bottom of the first, then added three more in the second and never gave the lead back. Campos was the pitcher of record when Oklahoma City moved in front, which put him in line for the win before the scoring situation turned on Rule 9.17(c).
That rule gives the official scorer discretion when a starter fails to go five innings, and in this case the scorer decided Campos’ brief outing was not both ineffective and brief. Oklahoma City play-by-play broadcaster Alex Freedman relayed that the official scorer at the park said he could not in good conscience make that call on Campos.
Once Edwin Díaz and Kris Bubic each recorded three outs in the third, Ferris took over and owned the rest of the game. The 22-year-old has now strung together five straight strong outings, a stretch that has completely changed the look of his season. He’s sitting on a 1.27 ERA over his last 28 1/3 innings, with 35 strikeouts and 10 walks, after a rough start that saw him post a 7.15 ERA through his first 18 outings and 73 innings.
The turnaround shows up in the strikeout-to-walk numbers, too. Ferris was at 8.1 percent through August 8, then jumped to 22.3 percent over his last five appearances.
The save itself lands in a tiny corner of baseball history. Since saves became an official major league stat in 1969, only two pitchers had ever worked at least six innings and still been credited with a save, both of them Texas Rangers. Horacio Piña did it with six scoreless innings against the California Angels on April 23, 1972, and Joaquín Benoit followed with seven innings and one run allowed in a 7-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards on September 3, 2002.
That Benoit game had its own strange path. Texas starter Aaron Myette was ejected after facing just one batter, Todd Van Poppel came on and threw two scoreless innings, and the Rangers were already ahead 4-0 by then, so Van Poppel got the win. Benoit then finished it off, and Jerry Hairston Jr. broke up the near no-hitter with a triple to start the ninth before scoring Baltimore’s only run.
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