Yankees Win Streaks Under Torre
Posted by Steve Lombardi on June 19, 2007
The Yankees recently had a 9-game winning streak this season - from June 5th through June 14th. I was curious as to how many times a "Joe Torre Yankees" team won more games in a row than nine? Using the Baseball-Reference.com Play Index Team Pitching Streak Finder, and setting it for "Longest Streak with W=1 From 1996 to 2007, Playing for NYY" shows me that the Yankees had two 10-game winning streaks under Joe Torre:
June 30, 1998 to July 12, 1998 - and
May 7, 2005 to May 17, 2005
In that 1998 streak, the team ERA was 1.98 - and their ERA was 2.60 in that 2005 streak.
And, the 9-game winning streak this year?
The Yankees team ERA was 2.63
The 2007 Yankees could have made it to 10-in-a-row...but they lost that "10th game" to the Mets, by a score of 2-0.
Just goes to show, you need great pitching to go on a long winning streak...still, if you don't score any runs at all one day, you're not going to win that game.
If the Yankees had beaten the Mets that day, we'd be looking at a 12-game winning streak (now) for the Yankees - a new record under Torre (for them).
That speaks to what this Yankees team is capable of doing...if they play well.