Brandon Webb is Stingy
Today’s sports news is headlined by Brandon Webb’s streak of 42 scoreless innings — thanks to his third straight shutout last night against the Braves. There are eight pitchers with more consecutive shutouts, if you consider a shutout to be nine innings of no-run baseball. Notice that four of them occurred in 1968.
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Orel Hershiser 1988-09-05 1988-09-28 6 5 0 6 5 5 0 0 55 30 0 0 9 34 0 0.00 0 1 0 LAD Don Drysdale 1968-05-14 1968-06-04 6 6 0 6 6 6 0 0 54 27 0 0 9 42 0 0.00 2 1 0 LAD Bob Gibson 1968-06-06 1968-06-26 5 5 0 5 5 5 0 0 45 21 0 0 5 35 0 0.00 1 0 0 STL Luis Tiant 1972-08-19 1972-09-04 4 4 0 4 4 4 0 0 36 16 0 0 7 31 0 0.00 0 0 0 BOS Gaylord Perry 1970-09-06 1970-09-19 4 4 0 4 4 4 0 0 36 15 0 0 3 20 0 0.00 1 1 0 SFG Ray Culp 1968-09-13 1968-09-25 4 4 0 4 4 4 0 0 36 18 0 0 8 43 0 0.00 0 1 0 BOS Luis Tiant 1968-04-28 1968-05-12 4 4 0 4 4 4 0 0 36 14 0 0 7 35 0 0.00 3 0 0 CLE Ray Herbert 1963-05-01 1963-05-14 4 4 0 4 4 4 0 0 36 15 0 0 3 22 0 0.00 0 0 0 CHW
Since Hershisher’s streak in 1988, there have only been six others lasting three games, including Webb’s current streak:
Brandon Webb 2007-08-05 2007-08-17 3 3 0 3 3 3 0 0 27 14 0 0 2 20 0 0.00 0 0 0 ARI Roger Clemens 1998-08-20 1998-08-30 3 3 0 3 3 3 0 0 27 8 0 0 5 31 0 0.00 0 0 0 TOR Bobby Witt 1994-06-23 1994-07-03 3 3 0 3 3 3 0 0 27 9 0 0 6 26 0 0.00 0 0 0 OAK Randy Johnson 1994-05-25 1994-06-04 3 3 0 3 3 3 0 0 27 12 0 0 8 34 0 0.00 0 1 0 SEA David Cone 1994-05-11 1994-05-22 3 3 0 3 3 3 0 0 27 8 0 0 5 20 0 0.00 0 0 0 KCR Dave Stieb 1988-09-18 1988-09-30 3 3 0 3 3 3 0 0 27 6 0 0 5 16 0 0.00 2 0 0 TOR
In 2007, CC Sabathia has the only other multi-game shutout streak, at two games.
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Pingback by skyking162 » Blog Archive » SOTD - Pitcher Shutout Streaks — August 18, 2007 @ 1:30 pm
Webb’s streak is absolutely amazing in today’s offensive era. I’d say his streak is already more impressive than Hershiser’s, although don’t forget that Hershiser added another 8 innings in Game 1 of the LCS that year.
Comment by Andy — August 18, 2007 @ 4:07 pm