What It Means:

Colon gave up two early runs in the first inning, but settled down from there. He ended up giving up nine hits in all, while striking out five and walking just one. It was his first complete game since 2015. At 44 years and 72 days old, Colon is the oldest American League pitcher to record a nine-inning complete game and get the win since Nolan Ryan did it in 1992. Colon is nearing the end of the line of his lengthy career, but he’s still doing some fun things.

Our models project Colon to finish the rest of the year with a 5.31 ERA, 13.6 percent strikeout rate, and 5.4 percent walk rate over 42 1/3 innings pitched.