Most consecutive scoreless outings to start career with at least one strikeout in at least each outing - Baseball-Reference PI

With one more scoreless outing with a strikeout Joba Chamberlain will take sole possession of the longest such streak to start a career with 8 games.  What other future Hall of Famer shares the distinction of having seven such games?  Why Joel Johnston, of course.   Others with a high number of scoreless innings and strikeouts to start their careers include four with six and a bunch with five.  Todd Wellemeyer for instance started his career with 7 2/3rd scoreless innings with 13 strikeouts and no walks and just two hits allowed.

Joba is a couple years younger than most of the other guys on this list, though Victor Cruz was just 20 when he debuted.

How you can do this: I went to the Pitching Streak Finder in the Play Index.  Checked "To Start Player's Career", Selected R = 0 and SO >= 1 for "with the following in each game:" and hit submit.

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