MIAMI -- Remember when Fernandomania and Dr. K took the baseball world by storm in the 1980s?

With the way Marlins rookie right-hander Eury Pérez is dominating on the mound, it might be time for this generation’s craze. If you check the annals of baseball history, the 20-year-old Pérez is putting up numbers akin to the start of Fernando Valenzuela and Dwight Gooden’s careers.

“I believe that,” manager Skip Schumaker said. “You just don't see this ever at 20 years old. And those are some pretty good names. I grew up watching those guys, and they were pretty special. It's good company to be in."

Pérez struck out a career-high nine batters across a career-high-tying six scoreless innings for a no-decision in Tuesday night’s 2-0 loss to the Blue Jays at loanDepot park. Toronto scored two runs in the eighth against lefty Tanner Scott to break a scoreless deadlock and snap Miami’s five-game win streak.

Schumaker, Pérez and catcher Nick Fortes were in agreement that Tuesday was the best start of the rookie’s young career. Pérez, who will graduate as MLB Pipeline’s top pitching prospect on Monday, went six innings for the second consecutive outing. He scattered three hits and walked no batters on 80 pitches (59 strikes), as the Marlins continue to monitor his pitches and innings.

“I think this was the first start that he really had that changeup dialed in the whole game,” said Fortes, who has caught Pérez’s past seven starts. “The past couple of starts have kind of been in and out, but today he had it for the entire game, and it really was a difference maker. He had a wipeout slider, as well, and really good fastball command. He had pretty much everything you could ask for tonight.”

The one time the Blue Jays had something brewing against him, Pérez thwarted the possible rally.

In the fifth, Matt Chapman doubled to the right-center-field gap with one out and advanced to third on Garrett Hampson’s fielding error. Rarely does Pérez shake off Fortes, but he did so to strike out Danny Jansen on a slider rather than a fastball. He then induced a groundout to second from Spencer Horwitz to end the threat.

“That cat's good,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said. “I mean, he's 20 years old, throwing 99 [mph]. It's tough. I thought our guys took some good swings on some heaters. Slider's a little bit weird; it doesn't really sweep, kind of goes straight down. But he's as good as advertised. He is a legit arm. It's tough sledding against a dude like that. And you know, happy he came out when he did.”

Here is a contextual look at Pérez’s remarkable stretch to open his MLB career.

• At 20 years and 66 days old, Pérez is the youngest pitcher to throw six or more scoreless innings with nine or more strikeouts and no walks since Gooden (19 years and 301 days) on Sept. 12, 1984. Gooden would go on to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award.

• Pérez's 1.54 season ERA is the fourth lowest through eight career starts (minimum 40 innings) among pitchers whose careers began in the 21st century, behind Shelby Miller, Alex Colomé and Jered Weaver.

• Over his past five appearances (27 innings), Pérez has allowed just one earned run, joining Gooden and Valenzuela as the only pitchers age 20 or younger in the Divisional Era (since 1969) to give up one or fewer earned runs in a five-game span (minimum 25 innings). Valenzuela captured the NL Rookie of the Year and the NL Cy Young Awards in 1981, his age-20 season.

• Pérez’s streak of five straight starts of five or more innings and one or fewer earned runs allowed is tied for the third longest by any pitcher age 20 or younger since at least 1901. It is the longest such streak since Gooden’s in September 1985.

“I'm living those expectations right now,” Pérez said via interpreter Luis Dorante Jr., when asked whether he has lived up to or surpassed his expectations. “Very happy I'm here to help the team and win games. That's what we're doing. I think I have to keep doing what I'm doing, same things as I was doing during the Minor League outings. It seems to be the same game, and [I’ve] got to continue that.”