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What does QS stand for?

Quality Start (baseball; start by a pitcher of 6+ innings & 3 runs or fewer)


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Quarter Session



Samples in periodicals archive:
792), joined Roy Halladay as the only pitcher in the top five in all three pitching Triple Crown categories (W-ERA-K), recorded a quality start in 24 of his last 25 starts, going 15-2 with a 1.
Hamels was as sharp as he's been all season and continued a sensational string of quality starts from Philadelphia's rotation.
Kazmir is the Rays' all-time leader in starts (144), quality starts (71), innings pitched (834), and strikeouts (874) with a career record of 55-44 and a 3.
Meanwhile, the Yankees are 5-9 in Weaver's 14 games and it's really impossible to predict whether he will provide them with a quality start this evening.
He's the player who touches the ball more than anyone else and that first movement is where the quality starts.
Johnson (15-4) gave up one run and nine hits in his 23rd quality start of the season.
No Mariner finished 2008 better than Ryan Rowland-Smith, who pitched another quality start, his eighth straight, in a 7-3 victory over Oakland on Saturday and left little doubt in the Mariners' minds that he deserves a spot in the rotation next season.
The quality starts with the fabric, but you will discover the seams, the hems, the buckles, and every other part of those microfiber jackets are just better.

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