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Heading into the final month of the 2012 MLB regular season, the Mariners wanted to present some interesting facts about candidate Felix Hernandez...

• 2012 Season – Is 13-5 with an American League leading 2.43 ERA in 27 starts this season…leads the AL in shutouts (5) and pitched (196.2), 2nd in complete games (5), 3rd in (184), By the Numbers… 3rd in opponent avg (.218), T3rd in quality starts (19), T6th in wins (13) and 10th with 8.42 K/9.0 IP. • Domination – Over his last 14 starts is 9-0 with a 1.40 ERA (17 ER, 109.0 IP), 5 shutouts, 100 2.43 Major League leading ERA strikeouts (8.3 K/9.0 IP) and a .183 opponent average (70x383) – only 2 HR allowed…tied for longest win streak of his career. 5 Shutouts in his last 12 starts • – Threw the 23rd Perfect Game in MLB history Aug. 15 vs. Tampa Bay in a 1-0 victory…it was the 7th Perfect Game in MLB history to be decided in a 1-0 contest, and first in the 9 Consecutive wins since June 23 AL since 1984…struck 12 batters, 4th-most in a PG. • Shutouts – Leads the Majors with 5 shutouts, all coming over his last 12 starts (6/28 vs. BOS, 7/14 Major League leading 11 starts vs. TEX, 8/4 at NYY, 8/15 vs. TB, 8/27 at MIN)…is the first since in 1998 to 11 allowing 1 or fewer R in 8.0+ IP record 5+ shutouts in 12-start span…has set a Mariners club record for a season…joins (1989), (1992) and (1998) as the only AL with 5 23 23rd Perfect Game in MLB shutouts in a season over the last 24 seasons (since 1989). history thrown 8/15 vs. TB • Awesome August – Went 4-0 with a 1.08 ERA (5 ER, 41.2 IP) and 3 shutouts in five August starts…all three shutouts were by 1-0 score, becoming the third pitcher in Major League history with 26 Felix is just 26 years old, and three 1-0 shutout in a calendar month: (July 1933) and Dick Rudolph (August 1916). has 98 wins and 232 career • Since the Break – Is 7-0 with an American League leading 1.23 ERA in 9 starts since the All-Star starts under his belt

break (4 shutouts)…selected to his third All-Star game, but did not pitch. • No Margin for – Recorded four 1-0 shutouts this season…is just the third pitcher during the 184 Strikeouts to rank 3rd in AL divisional era (since 1969) to have four wins with the score 1-0 in a single season (all CG shutouts), joining Hall of Famers Fergie Jenkins (1974) and Bert Blyleven (1976)… and also had four 1-0 shutouts in 1968 (record is 5, last: in 1964). • Going Deep – Has 16 starts where he has pitched 7.0 or more innings with 1 or fewer runs allowed, leading the Majors, and already setting a club record (he had 15 in 2010 Cy Young season)…next closest AL pitcher is with 11 such starts. • Felix – Recorded 11 starts where he has allowed 1 or fewer runs in 8.0 or more innings pitched…nearly any other pitcher in the Majors this season; R.A. Dickey & Bartolo Colon both have 6 such starts…Felix had 13 such starts during his Cy Young season in 2010. • Giving the Rest – Pitched at least 7.0 innings in a Major League-high 20 games (David Price is 2nd with 19). • Stingy – Allowed 2 or fewer runs in an American League leading 19 games (David Price is 2nd with 18). • Nice Turnaround – In 14 starts since his last loss (June 12 at ) has improved from 4-5, 3.70 ERA to 13-5, 2.43 ERA…during Felix’s 14-start the Mariners are 35-29 (.547). • Run Support – Has the 4th-lowest run support average in the American League at 3.84. • Something For the Effort – In 9 no-decisions has a 2.57 ERA (18 ER, 63.0 IP) with a 2.14 run support average… three no-decisions allowing 1 or fewer runs in 8.0 or more innings, tied for most by a pitcher in a single season over the last 15 seasons. • – Among AL starters, ranks 1st in WPA (5.2), 1st in +WPA (16.34), 1st in FIP (2.82), 1st in Adjusted Pitching Wins (3.5), 1st in opponent OPS (.579), 1st in Adjusted ERA+ (154), T2nd in WAR for pitchers (5.2), 2nd in WHIP (1.03) and 5th in xFIP (3.28) and WAR for all players (5.3). Stats courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com & Fangraphs.com. • Adding Them Together – Over the last four seasons (since 2009), combined to go 59-36 with a 2.66 ERA and 855 strikeouts in 128 starts…over this span leads the Majors in ERA, innings pitched (918.2) and quality starts (100), and ranks 3rd in strikeouts.

2012 Game-by-Game Date Opp DEC ERA IP H R ER BB SO HR HBP #P/K RESULT OPP. 3/28 @OAK* -- 1.12 8.0 5 1 1 0 6 0 2 104/66 W, 3-1 McCarthy 4/7 @OAK W(1-0) 4.40 6.1 8 6 6 1 7 1 1 102/64 W, 8-7 Colon 4/13 OAK L(1-1) 3.80 7.0 7 2 2 3 6 0 0 107/69 L, 0-4 Colon 4/19 CLE -- 2.76 8.0 5 0 0 1 12 0 0 126/75 L, 1-2 Tomlin 4/25 @DET W(2-1) 2.48 7.0 4 1 1 3 2 1 0 92/53 W, 9-1 Wilk 4/30 @TB -- 2.23 8.0 5 1 1 4 9 0 0 106/71 L, 2-3 Hellickson 5/5 MIN W(3-1) 1.89 8.0 1 0 0 2 9 0 0 107/71 W, 7-0 Marquis 5/11 @NYY L(3-2) 2.29 6.2 11 4 4 2 7 1 0 101/65 L, 2-6 Kuroda 5/16 @CLE L(3-3) 3.02 3.2 10 8 6 3 3 0 1 103/60 L, 3-9 Jimenez 5/21 TEX W(4-3) 2.80 8.0 6 1 1 2 7 1 0 111/72 W, 6-1 Darvish 5/26 LAA L(4-4) 3.17 6.0 10 5 5 1 7 2 1 99/64 L, 3-5 Williams 6/1 @CWS -- 3.42 5.0 5 4 4 4 6 3 1 85/49 L, 4-7 Peavy 6/12 SD L(4-5) 3.70 6.0 9 5 5 3 3 0 1 92/56 L, 4-5 Richard 6/17 SF -- 3.52 7.0 6 1 1 1 7 0 0 113/79 W, 2-1 Bumgarner 6/23 @SD W(5-5) 3.36 7.0 6 1 1 1 10 0 0 94/64 W, 5-1 Marquis 6/28 BOS W(6-5) 3.09 9.0 5 0 0 1 13 0 0 128/84 W, 1-0 Morales 7/3 BAL -- 3.26 5.1 8 4 4 0 8 0 0 90/62 L, 4-5 Chen 7/8 @OAK -- 3.13 7.2 6 1 1 3 6 0 0 114/67 L, 1-2 Colon 7/14 TEX W(7-5) 2.92 9.0 3 0 0 0 12 0 0 107/74 W, 7-0 Darvish 7/19 @KC W(8-5) 2.82 8.0 8 1 1 1 3 0 0 89/65 W, 6-1 Smith 7/24 NYY W(9-5) 2.80 7.1 4 2 2 3 4 1 3 117/72 W, 4-2 Garcia 7/29 KC -- 2.79 7.0 5 2 2 2 6 0 0 101/64 W, 7-6 Smith 8/4 @NYY W(10-5) 2.63 9.0 2 0 0 2 6 0 0 101/69 W, 1-0 Kuroda 8/10 @LAA -- 2.74 7.0 5 5 4 1 3 1 0 104/65 L, 5-6 Santana 8/15 TB W(11-5) 2.60 9.0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 113/77 W, 1-0 Hellickson 8/21 CLE W(12-5) 2.54 7.2 7 1 1 1 5 0 0 105/70 W, 5-1 Hernandez 8/27 @MIN W(13-5) 2.43 9.0 5 0 0 1 5 0 1 100/69 W, 1-0 Hendriks 13-5 2.43 196.2 156 56 53 46 184 11 11 * Game Played in Tokyo, Japan Last 14 GS -- 9-0, 1.40 ERA, 109.0 IP, 100 K, .183 OPP AVG, 4 ShO