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In another post, reader ES made the following observation:

Not only did Scott Ruffcorn not win any games over his Major League career, his team lost all 30 Major League games he ever appeared in. That is quite a feat to pitch that many games and never be involved in a victory.....

Which naturally leads to the question of the record for such a feat.

Using the PI pitching streak finder, we can search for consecutive appearances by a pitcher in a team loss to start a career. Here are the results:

Walker Cress started his career by appearing in 32 consecutive losses, but his career was 33 games long.  Like Ruffcorn, Charlie Bicknell's streak lasted his entire career, making them the co-(post 1920) record holders for this category.

Since 1920, how many pitchers have streaks of 8+ games of throwing at least 6 innings while allowing 5 hits or less (each time)?

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The White Sox and Phillies both won at home again last night, and each have done so 10 times in a row, the longest streaks this year:

For comparison, the Dodgers had the majors' longest streak last year at 13 games and the longest home losing streak this year is 8 games:

Buster Posey of the Giants has the longest active hit-streak in the majors at 21 games and is closing in on the longest streak of the season:

Posey's not that far off from the Giants' franchise record:

Raise your hand if you knew Jack Clark held that record. If your hand is up, you're either a liar or a serious Giants fan.

Here are the longest win streaks this season:

These are longest win streaks among games with a decision. Pavano, for example, has a few no-decision games sandwiched into his streak and those games are not counted in the stats above. He's registered 8 wins since his last loss.

Sabathia and Jimenez both had their streaks broken fairly recently, although notice that Jimenez has had two streaks long enough to make this list. Amazing.

Notice, too, that Tyler Clippard makes it!

Mat Latos has the next-longest active streak.

Via Play Index, here are batters this season, through yesterday's games, with at a streak of at least 20 games in a row where they reached base at least one time...

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Yesterday we looked at the recent game in which Felix Hernandez pitched 9 innings but failed to complete the game since it went to extra innings. Turns out there are some pretty interesting occurrences of these games in the past.

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The Mariners threw their second straight complete game against the Yankees yesterday. Let's delve into that a bit.

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Cliff Lee finished his 3rd game in a row tonight. He's the first pitcher this season to complete 3 straight games. Click through for the longest CG streaks since 2008.

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I noticed this news yesterday -

With his scoreless seventh inning Saturday night against the Indians, Reds left-hander Arthur Rhodes continued a dominating scoreless streak of 33 straight appearances and 30 innings.

According to Elias Sports Bureau, Rhodes’ 33-appearance scoreless streak tied the Major-League record shared by Mark Guthrie and Mike Myers. His 30-inning scoreless streak is the longest by a reliever in the Major Leagues this season and the longest by a Reds reliever since Ted Abernathy threw 30.0 consecutive scoreless innings in 1967.

And, the first thing I thought of - seeing Rhodes, Guthrie and Myers - was "Yeah, it's easy to pull this off as a LOOGY - facing one or two batters a game. But, how about guys who face three or more batters a game?" And, thanks to Play Index, we have the answer. Here's the "PI data available" streaks for most games in a row facing 3+ batters and not allowing any runs:

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Dig Billy Wagner and Todd Jones for having 3 streaks of 16+ such games here - albeit that they each had one streak over two seasons.  Now, those two guys had more than one run where they were really on a roll...