The Ol' Ballfield

Fun With BBRef's Streak Finder

Baseball Reference is doing some amazing things, and I highly recommend the new PI feature. Today's fun:

An indication of just how dominant Mark Prior was, and could be again. He holds the second-longest streak of games pitched with five or more strikeouts (since 1957), with 50. Prior has started 106 games in his major league career, and 50 of those, in a row, contained five or more strikeouts.

Yes, I do have a non-sexual crush on Mark Prior. Oh, please be good again! Curse you Dusty!

The longest streak? Randy Johnson with 69. If you look at the streak leaders for 10 or more, Johnson's name shows up an amazing amount.

Big news coming up with the next post.

posted by Carnival @ 1/20/2007