Sergio Santos & consecutive appearances with a strikeout
Posted by Andy on July 21, 2011
Going into last night's games, here are the longest streaks in 2011 where the pitcher recorded at least one strikeout in each appearance:
| Rk | Strk Start | End | Games | W | L | GS | CG | SHO | GF | SV | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | Tm | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sergio Santos | 2011-05-17 | 2011-07-18 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 13 | 23.1 | 18 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 35 | 3 | 5.79 | CHW |
| 2 | Yovani Gallardo | 2011-03-31 | 2011-07-19 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 127.1 | 131 | 64 | 56 | 45 | 112 | 15 | 3.96 | MIL |
| 3 | Derek Lowe | 2011-03-31 | 2011-07-18 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 119.1 | 123 | 59 | 58 | 43 | 83 | 7 | 4.37 | ATL |
| 4 | Felix Hernandez | 2011-04-01 | 2011-07-16 | 21 | 8 | 8 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151.2 | 131 | 61 | 55 | 44 | 146 | 11 | 3.26 | SEA |
| 5 | CC Sabathia | 2011-03-31 | 2011-07-16 | 21 | 14 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 153.2 | 137 | 52 | 45 | 38 | 134 | 5 | 2.64 | NYY |
| 6 | Dan Haren | 2011-04-01 | 2011-07-15 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 140.2 | 118 | 47 | 43 | 20 | 117 | 9 | 2.75 | LAA |
| 7 | Justin Verlander | 2011-03-31 | 2011-07-15 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 157.0 | 108 | 44 | 40 | 33 | 153 | 12 | 2.29 | DET |
Now, what happened last night? Sergio Santos came in and threw a wild pitch, allowing the winning run to score. He threw 4 pitches to Billy Butler but the game ended before the plate appearance ended, and he didn't register a strikeout. Streak over.
July 21st, 2011 at 8:13 am
It would be interesting to see the list for consecutive appearances in relief with a strikeout.
July 21st, 2011 at 9:23 am
Forgive my tangent ... When I do a B-R name search on "Sergio", I get 7 MLB players with the first name Sergio, and Milt Pappas. Here is every piece of name info I can find for Pappas on B-R:
-- Full legal name is Milton Stephen Pappas.
-- Nickname was Gimpy.
-- Born with last name Pappastediodis.
There's not a whisper of a hint of a clue why Pappas turns up in a "Sergio" search. But when I googled "Milt Pappas + Sergio", I found a single site with both terms in a related sense: Turns out, his Greek middle name was Sergios.
I wonder where on B-R that fact is contained.
July 21st, 2011 at 9:24 am
Well, never mind; I'm an idiot. "Sergios" appears at the bottom of his player page, under "Names and misspellings."
July 21st, 2011 at 9:26 am
Pappas comes up because at the bottom of the page Sean included this:
Name and misspellings: Miltiades Milton Gimpy Milt Sergios Stephen Pappas
All players have this at the bottom of their page. Sergio brings up Sergios since the search does autocompletion. Pappas' birth name was Miltiades Sergios Pappastediodis.
July 21st, 2011 at 9:36 am
🙂
[Sheepish grin]
I take some solace from having self-corrected....
Anyway ... That's a funny story about Santos, Andy. And thinking of the Butler AB as a "strikeout, interrupted" somehow reminds me of the apocryphal tale about Josh Gibson winning a home game with a mammoth blow that disappeared into the void. The next day, in another town (as the story goes), Gibson was at bat when a ball mysteriously dropped from the sky into a fielder's glove, and the umpire barked: "Yer out! -- yesterday, in Pittsburgh!"
July 21st, 2011 at 9:49 am
In the hope of contributing something besides my inane tangent:
@1, Dan -- Here are the longest relief streaks from 2001-present with at least 1 SO. Eric Gagne tops the list with 35 games (and 60 total Ks).
http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=pNd7y
The longest such streak in the previous decade was 28 by Ugueth Urbina; in the decade before that, Jeff Montgomery with 32.
I'm going to stop there, since search streaks are time-consuming and the last 20 years represent the peak of MLB strikeout rates. I would bet that Gagne holds the all-time record.
Also noteworthy: In 1981, Mark Clear had a 25-game K streak with 70 total Ks.
July 21st, 2011 at 10:33 am
Bruce Sutter had 39 in 1977
July 21st, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I guess it's just not my day. 🙂
July 21st, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Santos recorded a -0.366 WPA in a 0 BF game because of the game ending wild pitch.
July 24th, 2011 at 1:29 am
[...] -- Koji Uehara notched his 13th straight scoreless inning, with 20 Ks, 3 hits and 2 walks. He has at least 1 strikeout in 14 straight appearances, the 5th longest relief streak this year. (David Robertson logged his 15th straight today; Sergio Santos had the longest streak this year, as reported by Andy.) [...]