Cameron moves into company with former Cy Young winner following latest start

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KCTV) - Five starts into Noah Cameron’s career, the Royals lefty is in some elite company.

Cameron, a St. Joseph, Missouri, native who made his Major League debut at the end of April, provided the Royals with another quality start on Thursday.

Pitching in the first game of a split doubleheader between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals, Cameron went six scoreless innings, lowering his career ERA to 0.85. Cameron allowed just two hits and two walks while striking out three Cardinals’ en route to his fifth quality start.

According to the Royals’ broadcast on FanDuel Sports Network, Cameron ed former Cy Young winner Fernando Valenzuela as the only pitchers in MLB history to go 6+ innings and have 1 run or fewer allowed in each of their first five career starts.

Valenzuela accomplished the feat in 1981, the year he won National League Rookie of the Year and Cy Young. The Mexican lefty later went on to become a 6-time MLB All-Star.

Cameron’s start Thursday was also the first time he’d pitched against the same team for a second time in his MLB career. It came three weeks after he pitched 6.1 innings and allowed just two hits in a loss to the Cardinals at Kauffman Stadium.