Spurred on again by Baseball-Reference’s Stat of the Day blog who ran the first streak number below (6+ IP) this morning, I’ve been fiddling around with the B-R Play Index and came up with a bunch of my own that feature some Cardinals.
Longest streak in 2009 for a starting pitcher going six or more innings pitched:
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Adam Wainwright 2009-04-16 2009-08-25 25 14 7 25 1 0 0 0 176.2 164 55 50 46 146 15 2.55 2 6 0 STL Ubaldo Jimenez 2009-05-01 2009-08-23 22 11 6 22 1 0 0 0 155.1 123 51 49 49 135 9 2.84 5 6 2 COL Danny Haren 2009-04-07 2009-07-18 19 10 5 19 3 1 0 0 138 93 32 30 18 137 12 1.96 2 4 0 ARI Josh Beckett 2009-05-05 2009-08-12 18 12 2 18 3 2 0 0 128.1 96 37 31 26 114 9 2.17 4 0 0 BOS Tim Lincecum 2009-04-18 2009-07-17 17 10 1 17 3 2 0 0 126.1 91 31 27 29 149 4 1.92 2 6 0 SFG
Longest streak in 2009 for a starting pitcher surrendering two earned runs or less:
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Adam Wainwright 2009-06-26 2009-08-25 12 7 3 12 1 0 0 0 89 78 14 13 18 73 3 1.31 1 1 0 STL Erik Bedard 2009-05-05 2009-07-25 10 3 2 10 0 0 0 0 52 38 18 17 28 58 6 2.94 1 1 0 SEA Danny Haren 2009-05-28 2009-07-18 10 7 1 10 2 1 0 0 75 45 14 12 9 74 4 1.44 1 2 0 ARI Zack Greinke 2009-04-08 2009-05-26 10 8 1 10 5 2 0 0 75 54 8 7 12 81 0 0.84 1 3 0 KCR Clayton Kershaw 2009-06-16 2009-07-29 9 5 0 9 0 0 0 0 56.2 34 6 5 26 55 0 0.79 0 2 0 LAD
Kind of embarrassing for the Cardinal offense that Rootbeer couldn’t get the win in three of those starts, eh?
Longest streak in 2009 for a starting pitcher surrendering two or fewer walks:
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 2009-04-22 2009-08-26 23 11 9 23 3 2 0 0 159 152 62 52 14 79 5 2.94 6 3 0 STL Cole Hamels 2009-04-10 2009-08-02 21 7 6 21 1 1 0 0 123 139 66 64 23 107 18 4.68 1 1 0 PHI Chris Carpenter 2009-04-09 2009-08-17 20 13 3 20 2 0 0 0 138.2 114 36 35 20 105 7 2.27 5 1 0 STL Danny Haren 2009-04-17 2009-07-23 18 10 3 18 3 1 0 0 130 94 33 31 16 130 12 2.15 2 3 0 ARI Carl Pavano 2009-05-11 2009-08-08 16 8 5 16 1 1 0 0 101.1 115 57 52 15 70 15 4.62 3 4 0 CLE-MIN Zach Duke 2009-04-08 2009-06-29 16 8 6 16 2 1 0 0 112 107 41 39 26 54 11 3.13 3 0 0 PIT
Seriously, Pineiro is quietly having one of the best seasons that no one outside of St. Louis is noticing.
Longest streak in 2009 for hitters with at least one intentional walk:
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Albert Pujols 2009-05-22 2009-05-25 4 8 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 9 1 0 .250 .647 .250 .897 STL Joey Votto 2009-08-25 2009-08-27 3 11 4 4 1 0 2 3 1 5 0 0 .364 .588 1.000 1.588 CIN Adam Dunn 2009-08-05 2009-08-07 3 9 3 3 1 0 1 1 3 4 0 0 .333 .538 .778 1.316 WSN Carlos Gonzalez 2009-07-31 2009-08-02 3 8 1 6 0 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 .750 .750 1.125 1.875 COL Albert Pujols 2009-07-05 2009-07-08 3 10 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 .200 .429 .200 .629 STL Manny Ramirez 2009-04-30 2009-05-02 3 8 2 2 1 0 1 1 3 5 0 0 .250 .538 .750 1.288 LAD Lyle Overbay 2009-04-23 2009-04-26 3 9 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 0 .111 .429 .444 .873 TOR Kevin Youkilis 2009-04-24 2009-04-26 3 10 6 5 1 0 1 1 1 4 0 0 .500 .667 .900 1.567 BOS
National League pitchers fear Pujols so much, he’s got two of the top streaks in MLB in this category.
Longest streak in 2009 of hitters with at least one plate appearance in a game:
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Nick Markakis 2009-04-06 2009-08-27 128 521 75 157 40 2 15 85 82 43 4 2 .301 .355 .472 .827 BAL Prince Fielder 2009-04-07 2009-08-27 127 463 79 141 27 2 35 115 108 85 2 3 .305 .416 .598 1.014 MIL Adrian Gonzalez 2009-04-06 2009-08-27 127 445 73 122 22 1 34 77 88 97 1 1 .274 .405 .557 .962 SDP Albert Pujols 2009-04-06 2009-08-27 127 445 99 141 32 1 40 107 55 96 13 4 .317 .441 .663 1.104 STL Robinson Cano 2009-04-06 2009-08-27 126 510 84 160 36 2 20 65 45 23 4 6 .314 .345 .510 .855 NYY Adam Dunn 2009-04-06 2009-08-27 126 434 69 123 26 0 34 90 145 96 0 1 .283 .416 .578 .994 WSN Carlos Lee 2009-04-06 2009-08-27 126 477 56 149 28 1 21 81 41 36 3 2 .312 .359 .507 .866 HOU
Markakis is an iron-man for Baltimore, having started all but one of the O’s games this year and a plate appearance in every one. Pujols has only missed at least one PA in two Cards games.
Longest streak in 2009 for a pitcher getting a save after entering the game:
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Trevor Hoffman 2009-04-28 2009-05-21 11 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 11 5 0 0 0 10 0 0.00 0 0 0 MIL Ryan Franklin 2009-08-07 2009-08-26 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 8.2 3 0 0 5 3 0 0.00 0 0 0 STL Joe Nathan 2009-05-26 2009-06-19 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 10.1 4 0 0 1 12 0 0.00 0 1 0 MIN Brian Fuentes 2009-06-29 2009-07-22 9 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 8.1 3 0 0 2 6 0 0.00 0 0 0 LAA Brian Wilson 2009-05-27 2009-06-19 9 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 9.1 6 0 0 4 11 0 0.00 0 1 0 SFG
Franklin’s streak is active, so let’s hope he can catch and surpass Hoffman soon.
Anyone have some more streaks they’d like to see posted? Let us know in the comments below, and we’ll run ’em!
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Man, those stats tell the whole story! Sign the extension now before Franklin wakes up 😉
Done deal!
Of course Franklin had to go and make things interesting a couple nights ago, but I still think his performance is not luck, as some national ball writers would have folks believe.
Glad they were able to lock up the chin beard.
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