Wednesday, August 5, 2015

What is the longest streak of batters retired against one team by a pitcher?

This list below was compiled by Tom Ruane of Retrosheet. It came up in a discussion on the Retrolist discussion group. A pitcher could have faced other teams in between two starts against the team in question. This goes back to 1946.

The list shows the team that was the victim and the dates covered, which could be more than two games (it was 3 in the case of Bunning's 45, which included a perfect game).

 45 Jim Bunning        NYN 1964- 6-13 1964- 8- 9
 39 Freddy Garcia      ANA 2006- 5- 9 2006- 9-13
 38 Tom Browning       LAN 1988- 9-11 1988- 9-16
 38 Scott Baker        KCA 2007- 7-30 2007- 8-31
 37 Harvey Haddix      MLN 1959- 4-17 1959- 5-26
 36 Don Cardwell       SLN 1960- 5-15 1960- 7- 5
 35 Bob Lemon          DET 1951- 4-17 1951- 5-29
 35 Jim Bunning        HOU 1964- 5-18 1964- 5-29
 35 Chris Bosio        BOS 1993- 4-22 1993- 7- 4

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