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Most consecutive starts without issuing a walk

Posted by Andy on July 22, 2009

Joel Pineiro recently pitched his 4th straight start without issuing a walk. Here are the longest such streaks so far this year:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games   W   L   GS  CG SHO  GF  SV   IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO   HR   ERA  HBP  WP  BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Joel Pineiro       2009-06-28  2009-07-19     4    2   1   4   1   0   0   0   29.2   24   10    7    0   11   1   2.12   1   1   0 STL
 Hiroki Kuroda      2009-06-12  2009-06-28     4    1   3   4   0   0   0   0   26.1   27   16   15    0   22   4   5.13   0   2   0 LAD
 Joel Pineiro       2009-05-08  2009-05-24     4    1   3   4   1   1   0   0   28     30   13   12    0   12   0   3.86   1   0   0 STL

 Josh Geer          2009-06-29  2009-07-09     3    0   2   3   0   0   0   0   18     21   11   11    0    7   5   5.50   0   0   0 SDP
 Josh Beckett       2009-06-14  2009-06-26     3    2   1   3   1   1   0   0   22     22    7    6    0   18   1   2.45   1   0   0 BOS
 Braden Looper      2009-06-09  2009-06-19     3    0   1   3   0   0   0   0   15.2   22   13   13    0   13   4   7.47   1   0   0 MIL
 Jamie Moyer        2009-05-31  2009-06-11     3    1   0   3   0   0   0   0   19     15    6    6    0   10   1   2.84   2   0   0 PHI
 Mark Buehrle       2009-05-19  2009-05-30     3    1   0   3   0   0   0   0   21.1   27    6    5    0   12   2   2.11   0   0   0 CHW
 Danny Haren        2009-05-12  2009-05-28     3    1   1   3   0   0   0   0   22     22   10   10    0   20   5   4.09   1   0   0 ARI
 Kevin Slowey       2009-04-25  2009-05-06     3    2   1   3   0   0   0   0   16     22    9    9    0   13   1   5.06   0   0   0 MIN

Pineiro's streak is the only active one. After him, there are two guys working on active 2-game streaks: Roy Halladay (duh!) and Barry Zito (surprise!)

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