DENVER — Logan Webb was hardly the worst pitcher in baseball to begin this season, but he had performed far from his own high standards when he hit the injured list in the first week of May.
Now, in his first full month back, the Giants ace earned the highest honor available to him.
Webb was named the National League pitcher of the month for June, beating out the Brewers’ electric ace Jacob Misiorowski for the first monthly honor of his career.
In five starts, Webb allowed just three earned runs and walked only four batters while striking out 29. His 0.71 ERA was the sixth-lowest by any Giants starter in a month dating back to 1913, the most dominant month by any San Francisco starting pitcher since Noah Lowry (0.69) in August 2005.
Misiorowski turned in the most dominant start by anybody in the league this season with his 15-strikeout complete game shutout that required only 95 pitches. But Webb made one more start, threw 10 more innings in total and edged out the 24-year-old fireballer’s 0.96 ERA for the month.
Webb, of course, had a memorable outing of his own that set the tone for the rest of the month.
In his second start back from the IL, Webb took a perfect game against Misiorowski’s Brewers into the sixth inning and didn’t allow a hit until the seventh in what would be his first of three starts he didn’t allow an earned run. He followed those seven shutout inning with his first of three straight starts of eight innings, the first Giants starter to complete eight frames three times in a row since Madison Bumgarner in 2015.
Clearly, Webb was impacted by the bursitis in his right knee that forced him to the IL for the first time since he established himself at the top of the Giants rotation in the second half of 2021.
Getting healthy isn’t the only thing that spurred arguably the best run of Webb’s career. He also began calling his own pitches in his start against the Brewers and has continued the practice.
He was 2-4 with a 5.06 ERA when he landed on the IL after his May 5 start against the Padres.
Just two months later, he is 5-5 with a 3.09 ERA and a candidate to make his second All-Star Game.
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