No K’s in consecutive starts
Posted by Andy on February 10, 2009
Here are the most consecutive starts since 1956 with no strikeouts:
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Glenn Abbott 1983-09-25 1984-07-21 6 2 1 6 1 0 0 0 23.2 31 18 17 3 0 7 6.46 1 0 0 DET Ricky Horton 1988-05-05 1989-08-14 5 0 3 5 0 0 0 0 18.2 28 18 18 9 0 1 8.68 2 0 1 CHW-STL Rick Langford 1983-05-10 1983-07-27 5 0 2 5 0 0 0 0 14.2 32 19 18 5 0 3 11.05 2 0 0 OAK Mike Chris 1982-05-23 1982-06-16 5 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 10 15 13 13 19 0 1 11.70 1 0 1 SFG Bill Lee 1976-05-20 1976-09-04 5 1 3 5 0 0 0 0 25.2 36 18 16 6 0 2 5.61 0 0 0 BOS Pat Hentgen 2004-06-16 2004-07-21 4 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 12.1 22 25 25 16 0 5 18.24 1 1 0 TOR Jamie Moyer 1989-09-15 1990-04-12 4 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 13 24 19 15 6 0 4 10.38 0 0 0 TEX Bill Swift 1988-08-11 1988-09-26 4 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 17.2 27 14 12 9 0 0 6.11 1 1 0 SEA Dave Lemanczyk 1979-08-05 1980-04-13 4 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 8 18 14 12 3 0 2 13.50 0 0 0 TOR Bob Stanley 1979-07-27 1979-08-13 4 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 10.1 26 21 20 6 0 0 17.42 0 0 0 BOS Ken Holtzman 1979-07-12 1979-08-05 4 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 16.2 24 18 13 12 0 3 7.02 1 1 0 CHC Mike Morgan 1978-06-11 1979-06-27 4 0 4 4 1 0 0 0 16 23 16 13 13 0 1 7.31 0 0 0 OAK Wilbur Wood 1978-07-18 1978-07-30 4 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 15 29 19 19 6 0 3 11.40 0 0 0 CHW Mike Cuellar 1976-05-24 1976-06-11 4 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 16.2 24 15 14 8 0 1 7.56 0 1 0 BAL Joe Decker 1975-06-06 1975-07-24 4 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 3.2 4 13 13 19 0 2 31.91 0 4 0 MIN Jim Willoughby 1973-05-18 1974-04-07 4 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 16.1 29 15 14 7 0 2 7.71 0 0 0 SFG Ted Bowsfield 1962-05-15 1962-06-20 4 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 13.1 17 15 11 9 0 1 7.43 0 1 0 LAA Stan Williams 1958-08-27 1958-09-27 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 6 4 4 4 0 0 18.00 0 1 0 LAD Rip Coleman 1957-05-19 1957-08-08 4 0 3 4 1 1 0 0 8.2 15 11 11 7 0 1 11.42 0 1 0 KCA
I'm a little bit surprised just how awful all of these performances were. There is nobody on there with good numbers over their entire streak. I mean, no strikeouts is bad, but every starter has a few games in his career with low K totals that were still well-pitched games.
February 10th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Abbott, in those six games, didn't strike out anybody, gave up 7 HR in 23 2/3 IP, and a 6.46 ERA. BUT he only walked three guys, went 2-1, and his team went 4-2 in the six starts.
BUT (again), you do have to consider he was pitching for the 1984 Tigers, which were the greatest AL team of a generation. If it weren't for Abbott, maybe they'd have won even more games?
February 10th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
So, in 1958, Stan Williams had 4 straight starts in which he failed to last more than one inning. Maybe it's worth having a look to see whether that's any kind of a record.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Oops, scratch that last comment, I didn't see that the topic was just covered in a previous sotd.