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With his complete game last night, Barry Zito has ended the second longest (since 1954 and presumably in baseball history) streak of starts with out a complete game.
Here are the leaders:
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Kirk Rueter 1999-07-04 2005-07-29 193 67 60 193 0 0 0 0 1112.1 1253 600 549 372 402 135 4.44 10 8 0 SFG Barry Zito 2003-08-12 2009-05-13 185 69 69 185 0 0 0 0 1145 1067 588 545 494 813 124 4.28 49 25 4 OAK-SFG Tony Armas 1999-08-16 2008-07-01 167 53 65 167 0 0 0 0 896.2 863 500 460 425 655 116 4.62 49 42 6 MON-WSN-PIT-NYM Odalis Perez 2002-09-24 2008-09-28 157 46 57 157 0 0 0 0 900.1 988 492 456 252 603 117 4.56 21 19 7 LAD-KCR-WSN Woody Williams 2002-06-21 2007-09-13 156 63 50 156 0 0 0 0 954.2 992 479 449 260 604 125 4.23 43 22 4 STL-SDP-HOU Tim Wakefield 1998-08-25 2005-07-10 154 56 54 154 0 0 0 0 933.2 925 543 473 356 658 122 4.56 60 33 1 BOS Frank Castillo 1996-05-04 2005-05-26 153 46 64 153 0 0 0 0 829.2 911 519 483 286 588 110 5.24 34 9 3 CHC-COL-DET-TOR-BOS-FLA Jimmy Haynes 1998-05-23 2003-06-08 152 50 64 152 0 0 0 0 871.2 981 545 501 418 530 108 5.17 21 37 2 OAK-MIL-CIN Adam Eaton 2003-06-16 2009-05-15 143 51 52 143 0 0 0 0 803.2 888 489 454 288 558 115 5.08 41 19 0 SDP-TEX-PHI-BAL Ted Lilly 2004-08-28 2009-05-13 138 65 45 138 0 0 0 0 801.1 755 405 386 284 682 127 4.34 18 21 13 TOR-CHC
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May 20th, 2009 at 11:30 am
And he only needed to go eight innings to break the streak.
May 20th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Although as Raphy wrote it is almost certain that no one had such a streak prior to 1954, I tried to prove it in a roundabout way. I looked for the most seasons prior to '54 in which a pitcher started at least 20 games and completed 0. The search found nothing, and I assumed I had done something wrong. But then I searched for fewest CG in a season with at least 20 starts. Two pitchers had 1 (and those were in '51 and '53). Prior to 1954, no pitcher EVER started at least 20 games in a season without completing at least one. Only ten pitchers ever started at least 10 games in a season without completing one, the most being 14 in '53. So it is quite certain that even the longest consecutive incomplete game streak was quite brief by modern standards.