Chase Burns makes Reds history that hasn't been done in 104 years

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Chase Burns showed his immense potential as a rookie, but the end results weren't great.

This season, the potential is aligning with the outcomes. The Cincinnati Reds' flamethrowing phenom is dominating in the early stages of this season.

After allowing just one run in six innings on Tuesday night, Burns has a 1.83 ERA through 10 starts. And with that mark, he's making a bit of history.

He's the first Reds pitcher with an ERA under 2.00 through 10 starts, while age-23 or younger, since 1922, according to statistician @JayHayKid on X.

The pitcher in 1922 who did this was named Pete Donohue, and he had a 1.56 ERA through his 10 starts.

Donohue was a right-handed pitcher from Texas who won 134 games in his MLB career with a lifetime 3.87 ERA.

In that 1922 season, he finished 18-9 with a 3.12 ERA in 242.0 innings.

But how's this for amusing -- Donohue struck out 66 batters that entire season.

So far this season in 59.0 innings, Burns has 64 strikeouts.

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Clearly, baseball is a bit of a different game 104 years after Donohue was getting off to his stellar start to the 1922 season on the mound.

Those 1922 Reds had a solid season, too, finishing second in the National League -- but in those days, just one team advanced to the World Series, so that wasn't quite good enough.

One final tidbit on that bunch: The catcher that Donohue got to throw to most often was named Bubbles Hargrave, and his backup was Ivey Wingo.

Burns has to settle for the reliable Tyler Stephenson behind the plate, which seems to be working out just fine.

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