Editor’s note: This is a bonus Weird and Wild. To read the main W&W column, click or tap here. A couple of weeks ago, I endeared myself to all my friends in Philadelphia by writing a column entitled, “Ready for the greatest NL Cy Young Award race ever?” It now stands as living proof that I know how to get myself in all kinds of trouble.I reside in Philadelphia, you see. And thanks to my good friends from the Phillies’ radio booth — Scott Franzke and Kevin Stocker — you would think that the name, Cristopher Sánchez, never appeared in that column. Or at least that’s how six million Philadelphians heard it.Did I spend more time writing about the other aces chasing history at the time — Paul Skenes, Jacob Misiorowski, Mason Miller and Shohei Ohtani? I’ll admit it. I did. But was Sánchez completely ignored in that column? No, he was not.I literally apologized, in print, for writing more about those other guys. Not that the apology has kept me out of the line of social media fire in any way these last couple of weeks.So here’s a quick response: You know what’s changed since I typed those words? Sánchez has spun off 24 consecutive shutout innings, made history and zoomed to the top of the late-May Cy Young Award leaderboard. It’s almost as if two weeks in baseball can turn this sport upside-down.You know what hasn’t changed? I still think this is shaping up as the greatest NL Cy Young race ever. And the spectacular May artistry of Sánchez, Misiorowski and Ohtani has just elevated that race to a whole ’nother level.So with apologies to Skenes, Miller, Chris Sale, Chase Burns, Zack Wheeler, Kyle Harrison and whoever else I’m supposedly dissing, let’s check in (briefly) on the ridiculous unhittability of Sánchez, The Miz and the great Shohei in May.Sánchez’s bagel shopLet’s review Cristopher Sánchez’s historically untouchable work in May:000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000Yes, that’s 39 consecutive zeroes, in honor of the 39 straight zeroes Sánchez has hung on the board this month. It’s the most consecutive shutout innings any left-handed starter has strung together in any calendar month in the live-ball era (since 1920). But one more thing …You may have heard the big news that Sánchez’s total streak — of 44 2/3 shutout innings in a row — is the second-longest of any left-handed starter in the live-ball era. Ready for this news?That’s not true!In fact, he’s No. 1 on that list. Feel free to look this up — because I did. Carl Hubbell did in fact have a longer scoreless inning streak in July 1933 — of 45 1/3 innings. But because he came out of the bullpen once during that stretch, his streak as a starting pitcher was “only” 38 1/3 in a row.Then he came out of the bullpen and threw two more shutout innings as a reliever. After that came five more zeroes as a starter before his streak finally ended. Which means no matter how you calculate his starter streak — at 38 1/3 or 43 1/3 — it’s still not as long as the streak being stitched by the co-ace of the Phillies.So, even if you knew Sánchez made history this month, turns out he made even more than most of us realized. And I’m always happy to pass that kind of news along.Everything cool now, Philadelphia? Don’t answer that!Nobody hits The MizJacob Misiorowski keeps throwing triple digits and piling up strikeouts. (John Fisher / Getty Images)Meanwhile, there was The Miz. What Jacob Misiorowski did for the Brewers in May is also up there with the greatest calendar months in history. How is it humanly possible to throw 202 pitches in one month at 100 mph or swifter? Not to mention 111 batters faced … and 11 hits.But to properly measure his sheer domination, how about any pitcher having a month where he does this:49 strikeouts, 0 extra-base hits!That is mind-blowing to me. I decided to find out just how mind-blowing. Here’s what I found.Among all starting pitchers in the live-ball era who threw as many innings in a calendar month as The Miz has thrown this month (31 1/3), exactly one of them made it through that month without serving up a single extra-base hit. And it was …Eh, Johnny Niggeling, of the 1943 Washington Senators? Yessir. Johnny had quite a September that year. But nobody beats The Miz. Not even Johnny, whose month went like this:18 strikeouts, 0 extra-base hitsOh by the way, in all, The Miz is now up to 58 strikeouts since his last extra-base hit allowed. Nolan Ryan’s best streak ever was “only” 41 K’s between extra-base hits, back in 1986. Wild.0-tani timeShohei Ohtani has allowed five earned runs in 55 innings — for a 0.82 ERA. (Harry How / Getty Images)Finally, let’s talk again about that Shohei Ohtani dude. He launched 55 home runs last year as a hitter, but it turns out he’s also good at his cool little hobby we like to call “pitching.”His ERA for the Dodgers this year now stands at 0.82. That seems good.But just when you think he can’t keep up this sub-1.00 ERA stuff, he does some other ridiculous thing. Such as … what he laid on us in his unreal night at the ballpark Wednesday against the Rockies:0 hits allowed in 6 IP … and a leadoff homer as a hitter!What’s so weird and wild about that? Here’s what: Counting the postseason, that’s the third time Ohtani has pitched at least five innings in a start, just since joining the Dodgers, and hit more home runs in a game than he allowed hits!Not to imply you don’t see that much, but that’s as many games like that as all other active pitchers combined have amassed. Here come the only three examples we could dig up of active pitchers who have had a game with more homers than hits allowed — but you should know they all come with gigantic asterisk alerts (not even counting the arrival of universal DH in 2022):Max Scherzer — Aug. 1, 2017*