11-8, 3.13 ERA, 26 games started, 152.1 innings pitched, 141 hits alowed, 53 earned runs allowed, 50 walks, 187 strikeouts
The number that jumps out of Nageotte's stats is his Midwest League leading strikeout total of 187. It is the most in team history, surpassing Gil Meche's 168 in 1998. No Rattler pitcher has come within 20 strikeouts of his total since. He avreaged over 11 strikeouts per nine innings. His ERA and win total are also in the top ten in Rattler history.
He may have had the single best pitched game by a Timber Rattler that I have ever seen. That includes two no-hitters. In fact, Nageotte got a loss at Kane County on July 3, 2001.
Over his first seven innings, he had allowed one hit, a one-out double to Josh Willingham in the bottom of the fifth.
The Rattlers had a 1-0 lead on a solo homer by John Castellano in the fourth and Nageotte was cruising. The righty got around a lead off walk, the only one he issued, in the bottom of the seventh by striking out two and getting a flyout. The strikeouts were his 11th and 12th of the game.
But, in the eighth, things went wrong. Francisco Ferrand singled. Josh Wilson popped out. Nageotte went to 3-2 on Will Smith. Smith reached on a catcher's interference call and that was it for Nageotte.
Tim Burton came into the game in relief of Nageotte and got ahead of Adrian Gonzalez 0-2. Gonzalez blasted the next pitch over the picnic deck in right for a 3-run homer. Rattlers lost 3-1. Ouch. But, still a great game by Nageotte.
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