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Here are the longest hitting streaks (consecutive games with at least 1 hit) in 2008:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Ian Kinsler        2008-06-17  2008-07-13    25    106   25   45  15   2   4   16   13   17    6   0  .425  .508  .717 1.225 TEX                                         

 Garret Anderson    2008-07-23  2008-08-20    23     96   12   35   7   0   4   21   11    4    0   1  .365  .390  .563  .953 LAA                                         
 Michael Young      2008-05-14  2008-06-10    23    109   27   37   7   1   3   13   19    5    2   0  .339  .368  .505  .873 TEX                                         

 Kelly Johnson      2008-09-01  2008-09-24    22     87   17   35   9   3   3   18   14    5    1   2  .402  .435  .678 1.113 ATL                       

I thought maybe that if we limited it to just home games, there might be a longer streak, perhaps by a Red Sox player, but no:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Akinori Iwamura    2008-06-22  2008-08-19    21     83   14   28   6   2   0    8   13   11    1   2  .337  .421  .458  .879 TBR                                         
 Edgar Renteria     2008-06-11  2008-08-15    21     78   14   32   6   0   1    8    9    8    1   0  .410  .465  .526  .991 DET                                         

 Ichiro Suzuki      2008-04-14  2008-05-27    20     75   18   27   7   1   1    7    5    9   13   1  .360  .442  .520  .962 SEA                                         

 Garrett Atkins     2008-07-06  2008-08-24    19     77   13   26   8   0   1   15    7    7    1   0  .338  .388  .481  .869 COL                                         

Well how about on the road?

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Dustin Pedroia     2008-05-31  2008-08-10    29    128   27   54   9   1   6   16    6    8    4   1  .422  .457  .648 1.105 BOS                                         

 Lance Berkman      2008-04-30  2008-06-19    23     87   18   38   7   0   7   17   10   12    2   0  .437  .505  .759 1.264 HOU                                         

 Ichiro Suzuki      2008-08-16  2008-09-21    22     97   11   34   4   1   1    5    8    6    5   0  .351  .394  .443  .837 SEA                                         

 Adrian Gonzalez    2008-04-11  2008-05-13    19     77   12   28   6   1   6   16   13    4    0   0  .364  .390  .701 1.091 SDP                                         

So, laugh, a Red Sox player had the longest hit streak on the road. Go figure on that one. Also, Ichiro makes both lists--too bad he didn't have the streaks at the same time or he might have ripped off a 40-gamer.

In a recent comment - aawillsher asked the following question:

"I was recently wondering about a related question — what is the most HR’s hit by a player (season or career) who never hit more than one in a game?"

Using an obscure feature of the PI Batting Streak finder, we can attempt to answer this question.

Step 1:  On the bottom right corner select "Choose additional, advanced criteria:" and set HR>=1. This limits our pool to games in which a player has homered.

Step 2:  On the top right set HR=1.

Step 3: For a single season check the box "to start a season"

We may have to manually remove some results if a player had his first multiple home run  game late in a year.

Here are the results (1956-2008) to start a  single season:

+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Mike Piazza        1999-04-06  1999-10-02    40    162   55   71   3   0  40   80    7   18    1   1  .438  .492 1.198 1.690 NYM

 Hank Aaron         1963-04-11  1963-09-09    39    152   58   74   3   0  39   83   19   22    6   1  .487  .545 1.276 1.821 MLN

 Willie Mays        1966-04-12  1966-10-02    37    159   47   59   2   0  37   69   21    9    1   1  .371  .408 1.082 1.490 SFG

 Alex Rodriguez     2008-04-02  2008-09-17    35    132   61   68   7   0  35   66   26   23    5   1  .515  .595 1.364 1.959 NYY
 Ron Kittle         1983-04-10  1983-10-01    35    135   43   54   1   1  35   67   35   13    2   0  .400  .447 1.200 1.647 CHW
 Mike Schmidt       1982-05-02  1982-10-03    35    130   47   55   5   0  35   64   21   21    2   2  .423  .494 1.269 1.763 PHI

Aaron snapped his streak with a 2 HR game on September 10th. The other players all hit 35 or more home runs without hitting 2 or more in one game.

To figure out the career leader involves a little more work. (You can't simply check off to start a career because the PI limits the search to the players first 400 games)  However, we can do the same search as before and not limit it to the beginning of a season.

This yields the following result.

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Rusty Staub        1973-09-21  1981-09-08   124    493  160  213  19   3 124  241   16   48    0   0  .432  .480 1.237 1.717 NYM-DET-MON-TEX-NYM

 Marquis Grissom    1989-09-11  1998-09-09   109    480  159  211  16   4 109  180   40   26   26   7  .440  .467 1.171 1.638 MON-ATL-CLE-MIL

 Cal Ripken         1985-10-05  1990-05-09   102    419  140  176  16   1 102  183   39   38    2   2  .420  .466 1.193 1.659 BAL
 Lou Piniella       1969-04-20  1984-05-18   102    397  134  176  16   2 102  184   27   18    1   3  .443  .464 1.264 1.728 KCR-NYY
 Carl Yastrzemski   1977-06-19  1983-09-10   102    403  141  184  16   1 102  206   30   40    2   2  .457  .504 1.261 1.765 BOS

Rusty Staub had the longest streak (1956-2008) of home run games with just one. However, Staub did have 12  multiple homerun games in his career.  Marquis Grissom's first 109 home runs were all hit in different games. However, after that he had 9 multiple homerun games. Similary, the streaks of Ripken and Yastrzremski were oddities in careers full of mutiple home run games. This leaves Lou Pinella as the only player (1956-2008) to have hit more than 100 career home runs, but never 2 in the same game.

Here are the longest streaks since 1956 of starts with no walks:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games   W   L   GS  CG SHO  GF  SV   IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO   HR   ERA  HBP  WP  BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Bill Fischer       1962-08-07  1962-09-26    11    2   8  11   3   0   0   0   71     86   36   32    0   18   7   4.06   1   0   0 KCA                                  

 Greg Maddux        2007-08-03  2007-09-13     9    5   2   9   0   0   0   0   53.2   56   19   19    0   30   2   3.19   1   1   0 SDP                                  
 Greg Maddux        2001-06-25  2001-08-07     9    8   1   9   1   1   0   0   65.1   69   24   22    0   45   3   3.03   0   0   0 ATL                                  

 Javier Vazquez     2005-05-01  2005-06-04     7    3   2   7   2   1   0   0   50     51   19   19    0   41   4   3.42   3   0   0 ARI                                  
 David Wells        2002-09-06  2003-04-16     7    6   0   7   2   1   0   0   53     42   12   11    0   36   4   1.87   4   1   0 NYY                                  
 Jimmy Key          1989-09-20  1990-04-29     7    3   2   7   0   0   0   0   33     49   20   20    0   29   4   5.45   0   1   0 TOR                                  
 Randy Jones        1976-05-21  1976-06-18     7    5   1   7   5   2   0   0   60     53   20   16    0   14   5   2.40   0   0   0 SDP                                  
 Dick Donovan       1963-06-20  1963-07-20     7    2   3   7   1   0   0   0   44.1   51   29   28    0   12   9   5.68   0   0   0 CLE                                  

 Kevin Slowey       2007-09-04  2008-05-08     6    1   3   6   0   0   0   0   32     28   14   13    0   28   4   3.66   0   1   0 MIN                                  
 Paul Byrd          2007-05-04  2007-05-30     6    4   0   6   0   0   0   0   40     49   17   16    0   21   6   3.60   1   1   0 CLE                                  
 Jon Lieber         2006-09-02  2006-09-28     6    3   2   6   0   0   0   0   35.1   42   18   17    0   22   7   4.33   1   0   0 PHI                                  
 David Wells        2004-08-24  2004-09-18     6    5   0   6   0   0   0   0   41     36   17   14    0   28   6   3.07   0   1   0 SDP                                  
 Brian Tollberg     2001-07-16  2001-08-22     6    3   2   6   0   0   0   0   36.1   44   19   19    0   24   6   4.71   2   0   0 SDP                                  
 Greg Maddux        1995-06-09  1995-07-06     6    4   0   6   2   1   0   0   47     39    5    5    0   36   1   0.96   0   0   0 ATL                                  
 Bob Tewksbury      1993-06-20  1993-07-17     6    4   1   6   0   0   0   0   44     43   13   12    0   21   2   2.45   1   2   0 STL                                  
 Orel Hershiser     1991-08-11  1991-09-16     6    2   0   6   0   0   0   0   30.2   33   12   12    0   18   1   3.52   3   0   3 LAD                                  
 La Marr Hoyt       1983-07-13  1983-08-07     6    5   1   6   1   0   0   0   38.1   44   18   18    0   24   6   4.23   0   0   0 CHW                                  
 Don Drysdale       1966-08-18  1966-09-06     6    1   3   6   1   0   0   0   35     41   15   15    0   21   3   3.86   0   0   0 LAD                                  

There are some pretty surprising numbers on here:

• Fischer's streak comprised 71 innings over 11 starts, an average of about 6.5 innings per start. In 1962, that was nothing special. that he went 2-8 in those 11 starts is a bit surprising.
• Jimmy Key managed only 33 IP in his 7-game streak, or less than 5 innings per start. Yet he still managed 3 wins (despite averaging fewer than the required number innings to win a game.)
• News flash: Greg Maddux was really good. See you in Cooperstown in 5 years.
• Brian Tollberg? Raise your hand if you would ever have guessed he'd made this list. He was a great control pitcher, averaging about 2.4 walks per 9 innings for his rather short career.

Here are the most consecutive starts since 1956 with no strikeouts:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games   W   L   GS  CG SHO  GF  SV   IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO   HR   ERA  HBP  WP  BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Glenn Abbott       1983-09-25  1984-07-21     6    2   1   6   1   0   0   0   23.2   31   18   17    3    0   7   6.46   1   0   0 DET                                  

 Ricky Horton       1988-05-05  1989-08-14     5    0   3   5   0   0   0   0   18.2   28   18   18    9    0   1   8.68   2   0   1 CHW-STL                              
 Rick Langford      1983-05-10  1983-07-27     5    0   2   5   0   0   0   0   14.2   32   19   18    5    0   3  11.05   2   0   0 OAK                                  
 Mike Chris         1982-05-23  1982-06-16     5    0   1   5   0   0   0   0   10     15   13   13   19    0   1  11.70   1   0   1 SFG                                  
 Bill Lee           1976-05-20  1976-09-04     5    1   3   5   0   0   0   0   25.2   36   18   16    6    0   2   5.61   0   0   0 BOS                                  

 Pat Hentgen        2004-06-16  2004-07-21     4    0   4   4   0   0   0   0   12.1   22   25   25   16    0   5  18.24   1   1   0 TOR                                  
 Jamie Moyer        1989-09-15  1990-04-12     4    0   4   4   0   0   0   0   13     24   19   15    6    0   4  10.38   0   0   0 TEX                                  
 Bill Swift         1988-08-11  1988-09-26     4    0   2   4   0   0   0   0   17.2   27   14   12    9    0   0   6.11   1   1   0 SEA                                  
 Dave Lemanczyk     1979-08-05  1980-04-13     4    0   4   4   0   0   0   0    8     18   14   12    3    0   2  13.50   0   0   0 TOR                                  
 Bob Stanley        1979-07-27  1979-08-13     4    0   2   4   0   0   0   0   10.1   26   21   20    6    0   0  17.42   0   0   0 BOS                                  
 Ken Holtzman       1979-07-12  1979-08-05     4    0   3   4   0   0   0   0   16.2   24   18   13   12    0   3   7.02   1   1   0 CHC                                  
 Mike Morgan        1978-06-11  1979-06-27     4    0   4   4   1   0   0   0   16     23   16   13   13    0   1   7.31   0   0   0 OAK                                  
 Wilbur Wood        1978-07-18  1978-07-30     4    0   3   4   0   0   0   0   15     29   19   19    6    0   3  11.40   0   0   0 CHW                                  
 Mike Cuellar       1976-05-24  1976-06-11     4    0   4   4   0   0   0   0   16.2   24   15   14    8    0   1   7.56   0   1   0 BAL                                  
 Joe Decker         1975-06-06  1975-07-24     4    0   2   4   0   0   0   0    3.2    4   13   13   19    0   2  31.91   0   4   0 MIN                                  
 Jim Willoughby     1973-05-18  1974-04-07     4    1   1   4   0   0   0   0   16.1   29   15   14    7    0   2   7.71   0   0   0 SFG                                  
 Ted Bowsfield      1962-05-15  1962-06-20     4    1   2   4   0   0   0   0   13.1   17   15   11    9    0   1   7.43   0   1   0 LAA                                  
 Stan Williams      1958-08-27  1958-09-27     4    0   0   4   0   0   0   0    2      6    4    4    4    0   0  18.00   0   1   0 LAD                                  
 Rip Coleman        1957-05-19  1957-08-08     4    0   3   4   1   1   0   0    8.2   15   11   11    7    0   1  11.42   0   1   0 KCA                                  

I'm a little bit surprised just how awful all of these performances were. There is nobody on there with good numbers over their entire streak. I mean, no strikeouts is bad, but every starter has a few games in his career with low K totals that were still well-pitched games.

Most consecutive post-season games played with at least one hit:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

 Manny Ramirez      2003-10-14  2004-10-27    17     73   11   24   4   0   3   12   12   10    0   0  .329  .400  .507  .907 BOS                                         
 Derek Jeter        1998-10-13  1999-10-27    17     70   16   26   3   2   1    7   13    8    3   1  .371  .436  .514  .950 NYY                                         
 Hank Bauer         1956-10-03  1958-10-04    17     76   10   24   2   1   6   16   13    1    1   0  .316  .325  .605  .930 NYY                                         

 Pat Borders        1991-10-12  1993-10-06    16     59    5   22   4   0   2    8    3    3    0   0  .373  .391  .542  .933 TOR                                         

 Marquis Grissom    1995-10-03  1996-10-02    15     69   11   26   3   1   3    5   10    2    6   2  .377  .403  .580  .983 ATL                                         
 Rickey Henderson   1989-10-04  1990-10-19    15     61   14   25   4   3   4   12    6   10   13   2  .410  .486  .770 1.256 OAK                                         

I checked the full list to try to find the most recent active streak. Whatever it is, it's way down the list.

Here are the leaders for most consecutive games with a homer to start the post-season. So this doesn't count each series separately, but rather the first series that a given player played in each year.

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Juan Gonzalez      1996-10-01  1996-10-05     4     16    5    7   0   0   5    9    2    3    0   0  .438  .526 1.375 1.901 TEX                                         
 Jeffrey Leonard    1987-10-06  1987-10-10     4     13    5    7   0   0   4    5    1    2    0   0  .538  .625 1.462 2.087 SFG                                         

 Bengie Molina      2005-10-04  2005-10-07     3     11    4    5   0   0   3    5    0    0    0   0  .455  .500 1.273 1.773 LAA                                         
 Hank Aaron         1969-10-04  1969-10-06     3     14    3    5   2   0   3    7    1    0    0   0  .357  .357 1.143 1.500 ATL                                         
 Hank Bauer         1958-10-01  1958-10-04     3     13    4    7   0   0   3    7    2    0    0   0  .538  .538 1.231 1.769 NYY                                         
 Johnny Mize        1952-10-03  1952-10-05     3      9    3    4   1   0   3    5    1    1    0   0  .444  .500 1.556 2.056 NYY                                         

 Matt Holliday      2007-10-03  2007-10-04     2      9    2    3   0   0   2    3    2    0    0   0  .333  .333 1.000 1.333 COL                                         
 So Taguchi         2006-10-07  2006-10-13     2      2    2    2   0   0   2    2    0    0    0   0 1.000 1.000 4.000 5.000 STL                                         
 Javy Lopez         2002-10-02  2002-10-03     2      8    3    3   0   0   2    3    0    0    0   0  .375  .375 1.125 1.500 ATL                                         
 Troy Glaus         2002-10-01  2002-10-02     2      9    3    4   0   0   3    3    2    0    0   0  .444  .444 1.444 1.888 ANA                                         
 Derek Jeter        2002-10-01  2002-10-02     2      7    4    5   0   0   2    2    1    2    0   0  .714  .778 1.571 2.349 NYY                                         
 Jim Thome          1999-10-06  1999-10-07     2      7    3    2   0   0   2    6    1    1    0   0  .286  .375 1.143 1.518 CLE                                         
 Ken Caminiti       1999-10-05  1999-10-06     2      7    2    4   0   0   2    4    0    1    0   1  .571  .625 1.429 2.054 HOU                                         
 Shane Spencer      1998-09-30  1998-10-02     2      6    3    3   0   0   2    4    1    0    0   0  .500  .500 1.500 2.000 NYY                                         
 Derek Jeter        1997-09-30  1997-10-02     2      9    3    4   0   0   2    2    3    1    0   0  .444  .500 1.111 1.611 NYY                                         
 Brady Anderson     1996-10-01  1996-10-02     2      9    3    4   0   0   2    3    2    0    0   0  .444  .400 1.111 1.511 BAL                                         
 Ken Griffey        1995-10-03  1995-10-04     2     11    4    5   0   0   3    5    0    0    0   0  .455  .417 1.273 1.690 SEA                                         
 Marquis Grissom    1995-10-03  1995-10-04     2     11    3    4   1   0   3    3    2    0    0   0  .364  .364 1.273 1.637 ATL                                         
 Ruben Sierra       1995-10-03  1995-10-04     2     12    2    3   1   0   2    4    3    0    0   0  .250  .250  .833 1.083 NYY                                         
 Kevin Mitchell     1989-10-04  1989-10-05     2      9    4    5   0   0   2    5    1    0    0   0  .556  .556 1.222 1.778 SFG                                         
 Jose Canseco       1988-10-05  1988-10-06     2      8    2    2   0   0   2    3    1    0    0   0  .250  .250 1.000 1.250 OAK                                         
 Dan Ford           1979-10-03  1979-10-04     2      9    2    4   1   0   2    3    0    0    0   0  .444  .444 1.222 1.666 CAL                                         
 Davey Lopes        1978-10-04  1978-10-05     2      9    3    6   1   1   2    5    0    0    0   0  .667  .667 1.667 2.334 LAD                                         
 Joe Morgan         1972-10-07  1972-10-08     2      8    3    3   0   0   2    2    0    1    0   0  .375  .444 1.125 1.569 CIN                                         
 Harmon Killebrew   1970-10-03  1970-10-04     2      8    2    3   0   0   2    4    2    1    0   0  .375  .444 1.125 1.569 MIN                                         
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Dusty Rhodes       1954-09-29  1954-09-30     2      3    2    3   0   0   2    5    0    0    0   0 1.000 1.000 3.000 4.000 NYG                                         
 Mickey Cochrane    1930-10-01  1930-10-02     2      6    3    2   0   0   2    2    1    2    0   1  .333  .500 1.333 1.833 PHA                                         
 Jimmie Foxx        1929-10-08  1929-10-09     2      9    3    5   1   0   2    4    0    0    0   0  .556  .556 1.333 1.889 PHA                                         
 Casey Stengel      1923-10-10  1923-10-12     2      6    2    3   0   0   2    2    0    2    0   0  .500  .625 1.500 2.125 NYG                                         

Manny Ramirez has homered in the first two games this year (although he doesn't show up on the above list as of yet.) He has a chance to become just the 7th player to homer in his first 3 post-season games of a particular season if he goes deep again against the Cubs in Game 3 of the NLDS.

Mike Pelfrey pitched his second consecutive complete game win for the Mets yesterday. He has a way to go for the franchise record, though:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games   W   L   GS  CG SHO  GF  SV   IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO   HR   ERA  HBP  WP  BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Tom Seaver         1969-08-26  1969-09-27     8    8   0   8   8   3   0   0   72     39    9    8   16   50   2   1.00   2   1   0 NYM                                  

 Tom Seaver         1970-06-09  1970-07-09     7    7   0   7   7   0   0   0   63     40   19   18   15   59   4   2.57   0   0   0 NYM                                  

 Tom Seaver         1971-08-16  1971-09-11     6    6   0   6   6   2   0   0   54     33    6    4   15   50   2   0.67   0   1   0 NYM                                  

 Jerry Koosman      1976-07-30  1976-08-21     5    5   0   5   5   2   0   0   45     28    7    7   11   36   2   1.40   0   1   0 NYM                                  
 Tom Seaver         1975-05-26  1975-06-15     5    5   0   5   5   2   0   0   45     25    6    6   12   32   1   1.20   0   0   0 NYM                                  
 Jerry Koosman      1969-09-08  1969-09-26     5    5   0   5   5   3   0   0   45     26    5    5   15   34   1   1.00   1   1   0 NYM                                  

 Dwight Gooden      1988-04-15  1988-05-01     4    4   0   4   4   2   0   0   33     20    6    5    4   29   1   1.36   0   1   0 NYM                                  
 Dwight Gooden      1985-07-25  1985-08-10     4    4   0   4   4   1   0   0   36     26    7    6    7   31   2   1.50   0   0   0 NYM                                  
 Jerry Koosman      1976-09-01  1976-09-16     4    4   0   4   4   1   0   0   36     18    6    5    9   33   2   1.25   0   0   0 NYM                                  
 Jon Matlack        1976-05-31  1976-06-15     4    4   0   4   4   1   0   0   36     22    4    4    8   22   2   1.00   0   1   0 NYM                                  
 Tom Seaver         1973-07-18  1973-08-01     4    4   0   4   4   1   0   0   36     26    5    4    5   37   1   1.00   1   0   0 NYM                                  
 Tom Seaver         1970-04-17  1970-05-01     4    4   0   4   4   1   0   0   36     20    3    3    6   43   2   0.75   0   0   0 NYM                                  

 Dwight Gooden      1985-09-26  1986-04-08     3    3   0   3   3   1   0   0   27     23    4    4    7   23   1   1.33   0   1   0 NYM                                  
 Craig Swan         1979-06-04  1979-06-15     3    3   0   3   3   1   0   0   27     15    3    3    2   17   3   1.00   1   0   0 NYM                                  
 Jerry Koosman      1974-06-15  1974-06-25     3    3   0   3   3   0   0   0   27     22    3    3    3   13   1   1.00   0   0   0 NYM                                  
 Tom Seaver         1973-05-07  1973-05-18     3    3   0   3   3   1   0   0   27     15    5    4    5   18   2   1.33   0   0   0 NYM                                  
 Jerry Koosman      1973-04-19  1973-04-29     3    3   0   3   3   1   0   0   27     15    3    2    5   10   1   0.67   0   0   0 NYM                                  
 Jerry Koosman      1969-07-08  1969-07-18     3    3   0   3   3   0   0   0   27     22    8    8    9   20   3   2.67   1   0   0 NYM                                  
 Tom Seaver         1969-04-30  1969-05-10     3    3   0   3   3   0   0   0   27     18    4    4   11   17   1   1.33   1   3   0 NYM                                  
 Jerry Koosman      1968-04-11  1968-04-23     3    3   0   3   3   2   0   0   27     15    1    1    7   24   0   0.33   0   0   0 NYM                                  
 Tom Seaver         1967-09-13  1967-09-23     3    3   0   3   3   1   0   0   27     15    3    3   10   23   0   1.00   1   0   0 NYM                                  
 Al Jackson         1963-09-02  1963-09-11     3    3   0   3   3   0   0   0   27     21    9    8    8   15   3   2.67   0   0   0 NYM                                  
 Carl Willey        1963-04-24  1963-05-10     3    3   0   3   3   1   0   0   27     15    4    1    5   15   1   0.33   0   0   0 NYM                                  

That Tom Seaver...he was pretty good.

Whiz posted this on the suggestions page and it seemed worthy of its own thread (I took the liberty to add links to the searches):

I was doing some searches on longest team batting streaks and found that Florida currently has has at least 8 SO in each of the last 13 games, the longest such streak in the PI database (i.e., since 1956).

They also currently have streaks of 15 games with 7 or more SO (longest is 17 by the 1996 Tigers) and 4 games with 10 or more SO (longest is 6 by the 1972 and 2004 Reds and 1997 Giants). It’s not surprising since the Marlins strike out 8.7 times per game, by far the most in the majors, and they are on pace to beat the Brewers total of 1399 in a season.

The streak for 6 or more SO is safe for now — the longest is by the Rays last year, an amazing 47 games (2nd longest is only 28, “achieved” by Florida earlier this year).

Another oddity: the weekend series between Florida and Colorado is (as far as I can tell) the only three-game series since 1956 in which both teams had at least 10 SO each in all three games.

Comment by whiz — August 5, 2008 @ 4:39 pm

Tim Redding finally got a win on Friday night ending his streak of 9 consecutive starts without a decision. (1 short of the (post 1956?) record ).

However, Redding did pitch 6 innings in that game, keeping alive an unprecedented (at least since 1956) streak. Since April 13 Redding has made 18 starts. In every single one of those starts he has pitched at least 5 innings, but no more than six and 1/3. This by far shatters the (post 1956) record of 13 consecutive starts.

Here are the leaders:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games   W   L   GS  CG SHO  GF  SV   IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO   HR   ERA  HBP  WP  BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Tim Redding        2008-04-13  2008-07-11    18    6   2  18   0   0   0   0  103.2  107   50   48   33   70  12   4.17   3   6   0 WSN                                  

 Josh Fogg          2005-07-26  2006-04-24    13    4   5  13   0   0   0   0   72.1   91   46   40   23   34   9   4.98   2   3   0 PIT-COL                              

 Javier Vazquez     2006-05-23  2006-07-30    12    5   3  12   0   0   0   0   70.2   90   53   51   22   57  10   6.50   8   2   0 CHW                                  
 Cory Lidle         2006-05-16  2006-07-15    12    3   3  12   0   0   0   0   70.2   75   40   39   31   47  11   4.97   5   2   0 PHI                                  
 Jimmy Haynes       2002-06-16  2002-08-13    12    5   3  12   0   0   0   0   69.2   80   36   36   27   39   8   4.65   0   1   0 CIN                                  
 Andy Ashby         1996-06-05  1996-09-28    12    2   3  12   0   0   0   0   66     68   27   25   16   35   7   3.41   2   2   0 SDP                                  

 Mike Pelfrey       2007-05-01  2008-04-09    11    4   6  11   0   0   0   0   60.2   65   35   33   31   40   4   4.90   7   2   0 NYM                                  
 Jeff Suppan        2007-06-22  2007-08-17    11    1   3  11   0   0   0   0   60.1   79   36   35   24   41   2   5.22   3   6   0 MIL                                  
 Jaret Wright       2006-04-28  2006-06-27    11    4   4  11   0   0   0   0   59.2   63   27   26   22   30   4   3.92   2   3   0 NYY                                  
 Kirk Rueter        2001-08-07  2001-10-07    11    3   5  11   0   0   0   0   62.1   69   26   26   16   22   6   3.75   1   0   0 SFG                                  
 Kevin Brown        2001-05-23  2001-09-22    11    5   2  11   0   0   0   0   61     56   25   23   28   50   5   3.39   1   2   0 LAD                                  
 Hipolito Pichardo  1992-05-20  1992-07-16    11    4   3  11   0   0   0   0   62.2   62   26   22   23   26   3   3.16   0   2   0 KCR                                  
 Ron Robinson       1985-10-05  1987-08-10    11    4   2  11   0   0   0   0   64.1   67   30   29   17   39   4   4.06   0   1   0 CIN                                  

As of this morning, here are the longest streaks (in terms of number of games played) without hitting a homer:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Jason Bartlett     2008-03-31  2008-07-02    77    273   24   70   8   1   0   20   41   14   18   3  .256  .299  .293  .592 TBR

 Juan Pierre        2008-04-01  2008-06-29    73    274   30   76   9   1   0   24   17   17   35   7  .277  .327  .318  .645 LAD

 Joey Gathright     2008-03-31  2008-07-08    69    232   30   58   2   1   0   15   32   15   19   4  .250  .302  .267  .569 KCR
 Ryan Theriot       2008-04-16  2008-07-08    69    279   42   89  10   1   0   20   25   33   12   6  .319  .394  .362  .756 CHC

 Julio Lugo         2008-03-25  2008-06-18    63    207   18   57  12   0   0   15   40   25    9   3  .275  .361  .333  .694 BOS

 Delmon Young       2008-03-31  2008-06-06    60    230   31   62  10   4   0   19   39   17    9   4  .270  .321  .348  .669 MIN

 Jason Kendall      2008-03-31  2008-06-10    58    194   16   48  12   2   0   19   14   16    2   2  .247  .324  .330  .654 MIL

 Jamey Carroll      2008-04-06  2008-07-08    56    194   29   52   7   4   0   19   35   17    5   1  .268  .344  .345  .689 CLE
 Tony Pena          2008-03-31  2008-06-24    56    169   14   26   4   1   0    8   36    5    3   1  .154  .177  .189  .366 KCR                                         

The full list is here.

Many of the top streaks are ongoing. Bartlett, Pierre, and Gathright all have yet to hit a homer this year. Theriot hit one in mid-April but none since.

One guy who really sticks out to me is Julio Lugo. He's had double-digit homers in 4 out of his 8 seasons prior to this year but has managed just 1 so far this year. And it's not like he's doing anything else with the bat considering his absolutely horrid .676 OPS. Boston has made numerous excellent player acquisitions in the last several years (coming to mind right away are Matsuzaka, Beckett, Lowell, Okajima, and even Nancy J.D. Drew seems to be turning it around) but in Lugo they've been saddled with one of the worst players in the major leagues.

Isn't it crazy to see a list like this? 20 years ago, lots of guys (especially middle infielders) would go the whole season with 0, 1, or 2 homers. To see streaks of 80+ games wouldn't be that rare. Now, we expect every guy to have at least a handful every year.