Comments on: Garret Anderson / RBI game streak

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:49:30 +0000

Garret Anderson just got an RBI in his 12th straight game.

By: jackfish

jackfish — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:40:47 +0000

Wikipedia has the wrong ending date for Grimes. His record breaking streak ended on July 23, 1922.

Jack

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:39:55 +0000

I agree that would be useful. The problem is that there are about a million useful things that could be added. Sean's busy doing things like adding minors.baseball-reference.com

By: Davie

Davie — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:34:58 +0000

The Garret Anderson "active streak" is what gets me. There should be an "active streak check box" on those PI streak pages, eh?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:27:14 +0000

Here are the leaders by decade. Piazza for the 00's.

1990s: Mike Sweeney 1999-06-23 1999-07-04 13
1980s: 4 tied at 11 (Puckett, Van Slyke, Larry Parrish, F White)
1970s: Doug DeCinces 1978-09-22 1979-04-06 11
1960s: 2 tied at 10 (Monday and B White)
1957-59: 4 tied at 8 (F Robinson, Cerv, Dick Brown, and Hank Aaron twice)

That's as far back as the PI Streak Finder can go, so OscarAzocar's answer looks to be correct. Piazza has the longest streak since at least 1957, though, perhaps much longer.

By: OscarAzocar

OscarAzocar — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:56:15 +0000

Thats too many games in too few days.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_rbi1.shtml
has the streak ending on a more logical date July 23.
Of course once someone post an error it on Wikipedia, it spreads all over the internet like wildfire.

By: OscarAzocar

OscarAzocar — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:35:48 +0000

17 - Ray Grimes, Chicago Cubs - June 27 through July 2, 1922
according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MLB_individual_streaks

By: statman55

statman55 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:06:47 +0000

What is the longest rbi streak ever?