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Sometimes it's just nice to play with Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index and see where it takes you. For example, let us look at which team, since 1954, had at least one triple in a game the most games in a row. Thanks to PI's Team Batting Streak Finder here's that answer:

Ah, so, the 1979 Phillies are the leaders here.  Let's look at their Team Batting Page at B-R.com and see who had more than one triple for them that season:

Bowa and McBride leading the pack here, huh? Yeah, I can just see those two slashing balls into the gap on the turf at the old Vet; and, then, taking off, scooting around the bases. Seeing this, I next wondered how many teams in the "D.H. Era," had at least two players on their team with 10+ triples in a season. Thanks to PI's Batting Season Finder, here's that answer:

Here's a great reason to watch Game 5 of the ALCS tonight:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Alex Rodriguez     2007-10-08  2009-10-20     8     32   10   13   1   0   6   12    6    4    1   0  .406  .459 1.000 1.459 NYY
 Ryan Howard        2009-10-07  2009-10-19     8     29    7   11   4   1   2   14    7    5    0   1  .379  .457  .793 1.250 PHI
 Lou Gehrig         1928-10-04  1932-10-02     8     28   14   15   2   0   7   17    1    8    0   0  .536  .649 1.357 2.006 NYY

Ryan Howard's streak of consecutive post-season games with an RBI ended last night despite the Phillies' big win. Tonight, A-rod has a chance to move into sole possession of first place for this record. In my opinion, this is a pretty big deal, particularly since most of his RBI so far have been very meaningful in terms of game situations.

Incidentally, the record for consecutive regular-season games with an RBI is pretty far out of reach:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Mike Piazza        2000-06-14  2000-07-02    15     63   14   22   3   0   8   28    9    4    0   0  .349  .388  .778 1.166 NYM

 Mike Sweeney       1999-06-23  1999-07-04    13     52   14   23   4   0   4   19    5    5    1   0  .442  .508  .750 1.258 KCR

 Garret Anderson    2007-08-26  2007-09-07    12     42   12   20   3   0   7   22    3   10    1   0  .476  .556 1.048 1.604 LAA

Rodriguez is reminding me more and more of Barry Bonds, who was another guy who failed a lot in the post-season before having a breakout playoff output late in his career. Now Bonds' earlier failures are rarely remembered--I wonder how A-rod's reputation will change after this season? If he can drive in a few more runs and the Yankees win the World Series, my guess is most fans will forget his earlier poor performances.

Tonight's mlb Game Notes mentions that Scott Kazmir has not won in his last 5 post-season starts. UPDATE: Make that 6. (Teammate John Lackey snapped a six game streak at the start off this year's playoffs.) This made me wonder who had the longest win-less postseason streak. Here are the results from the PI streak finder.

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games   W   L   GS  CG SHO  GF  SV   IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO   HR   ERA  HBP  WP  BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Al Leiter          1997-10-01  2000-10-26    11    0   3  11   0   0   0   0   66     60   37   32   31   58   6   4.36   3   2   0 FLA-NYM

 Dwight Gooden      1986-10-08  1998-10-10     9    0   4   9   0   0   0   0   52     51   24   22   23   46   6   3.81   2   2   1 NYM-NYY-CLE
 Gary Nolan         1970-10-10  1976-10-12     9    0   2   9   0   0   0   0   43.2   37   20   20    9   24  10   4.12   0   1   0 CIN

 Randy Johnson      1995-10-13  2001-10-10     8    0   7   8   1   0   0   0   58.2   52   28   25   15   66   9   3.84   0   0   0 SEA-HOU-ARI
 Charles Nagy       1995-10-13  1997-10-21     8    0   2   8   0   0   0   0   49     53   30   28   21   34  11   5.14   3   0   0 CLE

Clearly to own such a streak, your team has to be winning and to keep pitching you have to be doing pretty well also. However, a combination of inconsistency and bad luck left these players on this undistinguished list. As a group, during these games they made 45 starts and went 0-18 with 27 no decisions. They averaged 5.96 innings per start and had an ERA of 4.26 and a WHIP of 1.31. Yet their teams won a lot of pennants and championships during these streaks. (I'm not putting a number on it because there are too many variables to know what to count). A few more interesting fact come to light when you take a closer look.:

• Al Leiter recorded more postseason wins as a reliever for the Blue Jays and Yankees (1 each) than he did as a starter for the Mets and Marlins (0).
• Doc Gooden never won a postseason game. In the '86 playoffs he went 0-3 with a no decision.
• Gary Nolan won his first postseason game and his last (the '76 clincher), but none in between.
• From when he broke the Yankees hearts in '95 until the LCS before he dominated the Yankees in 2001, Randy Johnson went 0-7 with 1 no decision. The 7 losses were in consecutive starts.
• Charles Nagy pitched in 5 postseasons. In each one he earned a decision in the first game he started. He only earned 1 more decision in any of the other nine postseason game that he started.

With Ryan Howard's outstanding performance so far this post-season, you've probably already heard that he just tied Lou Gehrig for most consecutive playoff games with an RBI:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Ryan Howard        2009-10-07  2009-10-19     8     29    7   11   4   1   2   14    7    5    0   1  .379  .457  .793 1.250 PHI                                         
 Lou Gehrig         1928-10-04  1932-10-02     8     28   14   15   2   0   7   17    1    8    0   0  .536  .649 1.357 2.006 NYY                                         

 Alex Rodriguez     2007-10-08  2009-10-19     7     28    7   10   0   0   5   10    5    3    0   0  .357  .406  .893 1.299 NYY                                         
 Bill Skowron       1958-10-06  1960-10-09     7     31    7   12   1   0   2   10    6    1    0   0  .387  .406  .613 1.019 NYY                                         
 Clyde Barnhart     1925-10-12  1927-10-08     7     28    1    9   2   0   0    8    2    2    1   0  .321  .355  .393  .748 PIT                                         

 Ivan Rodriguez     2003-10-10  2003-10-18     6     23    4    6   2   0   1    6    5    4    0   0  .261  .357  .478  .835 FLA                                         
 Bernie Williams    1996-10-04  1996-10-12     6     22    9   12   2   0   5   10    4    5    1   1  .545  .607 1.318 1.925 NYY                                         
 Tony Perez         1975-10-22  1976-10-17     6     24    2    8   1   0   1    8    3    1    0   1  .333  .333  .500  .833 CIN                                         
 Carlton Fisk       1975-10-04  1975-10-14     6     21    6    7   1   0   1    6    3    4    1   0  .333  .440  .524  .964 BOS                                         

Howard's not the only player with an RBI in every game during these playoffs. A-rod has done the same, and he has a streak of 7 going back to the Yankees' last playoff game in 2007.

Notice that the Iron Horse's numbers were incredible in those 8 games--an OPS of 2.006 and 17 RBI.  On this list, only Bernie Williams has numbers comparable to Gehrig's.

Incidentally, by limiting the streak to just League Championship Series games, one guy stands out above all others:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Manny Ramirez      2007-10-16  2009-10-15    10     33    7   14   3   0   4   13    6   11    0   0  .424  .556  .879 1.435 BOS-LAD                                     

 Ryan Howard        2008-10-13  2009-10-19     6     21    7    9   1   1   2   10    3    6    0   0  .429  .556  .857 1.413 PHI                                         
 Derek Jeter        2004-10-18  2009-10-19     6     31    3    7   1   0   2    8    5    1    0   0  .226  .250  .452  .702 NYY                                         
 Kevin Youkilis     2007-10-16  2008-10-11     6     27    9   16   3   1   4    9    1    2    0   0  .593  .621 1.222 1.843 BOS                                         
 Ivan Rodriguez     2003-10-10  2006-10-10     6     25    5    8   2   0   2    6    6    4    0   0  .320  .414  .640 1.054 FLA-DET                                     
 Mark McGwire       1988-10-06  1989-10-06     6     21    6    9   1   0   2    6    5    2    0   0  .429  .458  .762 1.220 OAK                                         

Streaks like these are quite impressive. Remember that when playing in the post-season, batters are usually facing quite good pitchers. Driving in runs in 10 straight games is amazing.

For just World Series games:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Reggie Jackson     1977-10-14  1978-10-14     8     29   11   15   2   0   6   14    5    3    0   0  .517  .588 1.207 1.795 NYY                                         
 Lou Gehrig         1928-10-04  1932-10-02     8     28   14   15   2   0   7   17    1    8    0   0  .536  .649 1.357 2.006 NYY                                         

 Bill Skowron       1958-10-06  1960-10-09     7     31    7   12   1   0   2   10    6    1    0   0  .387  .406  .613 1.019 NYY                                         
 Clyde Barnhart     1925-10-12  1927-10-08     7     28    1    9   2   0   0    8    2    2    1   0  .321  .355  .393  .748 PIT                                         

Gehrig's streak shows up again, since all his post-season games were World Series games. He's joined by REG-GIE REG-GIE from 1977-1978.

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Reggie Jackson     1977-10-14  1978-10-14     8     29   11   15   2   0   6   14    5    3    0   0  .517  .588 1.207 1.795 NYY                                         
 Lou Gehrig         1928-10-04  1932-10-02     8     28   14   15   2   0   7   17    1    8    0   0  .536  .649 1.357 2.006 NYY                                         

 Bill Skowron       1958-10-06  1960-10-09     7     31    7   12   1   0   2   10    6    1    0   0  .387  .406  .613 1.019 NYY                                         
 Clyde Barnhart     1925-10-12  1927-10-08     7     28    1    9   2   0   0    8    2    2    1   0  .321  .355  .393  .748 PIT                                         

With an RBI in each of his first 6 postseason games this season, Ryan Howard has tied a 24 year old record held by Carlton Fisk. Like Howard, Fisk also started off the 1975 postseason with 6 consecutive games with at least 1 RBI, but amazingly enough Fisk only accumulated 6 RBI in those games.Keeping in mind that not every postseason even had 6 games, here are the all time leaders in consecutive games with an RBI to start a postseason:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Ryan Howard        2009-10-07  2009-10-16     6     22    5    9   4   0   1    9    5    3    0   1  .409  .462  .727 1.189 PHI                                         
 Carlton Fisk       1975-10-04  1975-10-14     6     21    6    7   1   0   1    6    3    4    1   0  .333  .440  .524  .964 BOS                                         

 Mike Lowell        2007-10-03  2007-10-13     5     17    2    6   3   0   1    9    1    2    0   0  .353  .381  .706 1.087 BOS                                         
 Jim Leyritz        1998-09-29  1998-10-07     5     12    3    4   0   0   3    6    2    0    0   0  .333  .308 1.083 1.391 SDP                                         
 Tony Perez         1976-10-09  1976-10-17     5     19    1    7   1   0   0    6    3    1    0   1  .368  .364  .421  .785 CIN                                         
 Boog Powell        1970-10-03  1970-10-11     5     20    5    9   2   0   3   10    4    3    0   0  .450  .522 1.000 1.522 BAL                                         
 Danny Murphy       1910-10-17  1910-10-23     5     20    6    8   3   0   1    9    0    1    1   0  .400  .429  .700 1.129 PHA                                         

As for the regular record of consecutive postseason games with an RBI, Howard has already tied Fisk, Ivan Rodriguez and Bernie Williams for the single season record and is two games away from tying Lou Gehrig if you allow for multiple seasons.

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Lou Gehrig         1928-10-04  1932-10-02     8     28   14   15   2   0   7   17    1    8    0   0  .536  .649 1.357 2.006 NYY                                         

 Bill Skowron       1958-10-06  1960-10-09     7     31    7   12   1   0   2   10    6    1    0   0  .387  .406  .613 1.019 NYY                                         
 Clyde Barnhart     1925-10-12  1927-10-08     7     28    1    9   2   0   0    8    2    2    1   0  .321  .355  .393  .748 PIT                                         

 Ryan Howard        2009-10-07  2009-10-16     6     22    5    9   4   0   1    9    5    3    0   1  .409  .462  .727 1.189 PHI                                         
 Ivan Rodriguez     2003-10-10  2003-10-18     6     23    4    6   2   0   1    6    5    4    0   0  .261  .357  .478  .835 FLA                                         
 Bernie Williams    1996-10-04  1996-10-12     6     22    9   12   2   0   5   10    4    5    1   1  .545  .607 1.318 1.925 NYY                                         
 Tony Perez         1975-10-22  1976-10-17     6     24    2    8   1   0   1    8    3    1    0   1  .333  .333  .500  .833 CIN                                         
 Carlton Fisk       1975-10-04  1975-10-14     6     21    6    7   1   0   1    6    3    4    1   0  .333  .440  .524  .964 BOS                                         

Cliff Lee has a game score over 60 in his first two career post-season starts. Here are the only guys to do that in the last 20 post-seasons:

                   Games Link to Individual Games
+-----------------+-----+-------------------------+
 Pete Schourek         2 Ind. Games                
 Curt Schilling        2 Ind. Games                
 Charles Nagy          2 Ind. Games                
 Cliff Lee             2 Ind. Games                
 Darryl Kile           2 Ind. Games                
 Orlando Hernandez     2 Ind. Games                
 Doug Drabek           2 Ind. Games                
 Chris Carpenter       2 Ind. Games                
 Steve Avery           2 Ind. Games              

Ok, wait, that's not quite right. This is a Pitching Game Finder search, limited to post-season and a player's first two games, and those with game scores over 60 in both. It doesn't consider any players who might have had relief appearances. In other words, a relief appearance doesn't receive a game score and so if any players had a relief appearance in their first two post-season games, they automatically cannot make this list.

A more complete list can be found here, using a streak finder. It adds in Jon Lester, Miguel Batista, and a few others who belong in the club, but also adds some guys who do not belong. In this case, a guy like Jose Contreras doesn't belong. He makes the list because he did it in his first 2 games with the White Sox. The Streak Finder considers streaks at the start of a player's career or tenure with a new team.

Dave Stewart, who also shows up on that streak list, also doesn't count since 1990 wasn't the beginning of his post-season career. The streak finder, since I limited it to 1990-present, ignores anything that happened before 1990. Mind you, Steward DID get a game score above 60 in his first 3 post-season starts--they just came in 1988. (He managed a score above 60 in 8 out of his first 9 career post-season starts...wow!)

How many players, since 1954, have hit a triple in 4 consecutive games (or more)? Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Streak Finder, we can look for things like this...let's do it in slices...first, 1954 through 1979:

                  StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Billy Williams     1963-05-08  1963-05-11     4     13    2    6   0   4   0    5    3    3    1   0  .462  .563 1.077 1.640 CHC       

Next, how about 1980 through 2005:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Nomar Garciaparra  2003-05-31  2003-06-04     4     19    7    8   1   4   0    1    0    0    0   0  .421  .421  .895 1.316 BOS
 Sammy Sosa         1994-05-14  1994-05-17     4     14    3    8   0   4   1    4    1    1    1   2  .571  .600 1.357 1.957 CHC
 Tom Herr           1981-04-20  1981-04-25     4     15    1    5   0   4   0    8    1    0    0   0  .333  .333  .867 1.200 STL        

Lastly, no one has done this, meaning hit a triple in four straight games, to date, since 2003.

Will we ever see someone hit a triple in 5 straight games?  Well, we haven't seen it happen since 1954.  So, while anything is possible, I don't like the odds of this happening - any time soon.

It's interesting that, for the four times, since 1954, that a player has hit a triple in 4 consecutive games, that it's never  happened after June 4th in a baseball season.  I guess no one wants to run that much once it starts getting hot outside. 😉

Longest Streak to start career with multi-hit games - Baseball-Reference PI

Ian Desmond has gotten off to a fine start for his career with three multi-hit games, but he'll need to be better to be the best of recent memory.

To generate this list I used the batting streak finder. I made the decision to only consider games with 2 or more AB's. This causes us to include Oliva's streak. In 1962 and 1963 he pinch hit a bunch of games, but actually had only one multi-AB game in that stretch. He then started 1964 with five multi-hit games. Salazar pinch ran in his debut and then rattled off his streak. The caveat that this is only for the retrosheet-era 1954 on applies. If you want to push the retrosheet era back earlier, volunteer here.

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+---------
 Tony Oliva         1962-09-14  1964-04-19     6     27    6   13   3   2   1    9    3    3    0   1  .481  .533  .852 1.385 MIN

 Luis Salazar       1980-08-17  1980-08-21     5     19    3   11   0   1   0    3    4    1    0   0  .579  .600  .684 1.284 SDP 

 Josh Anderson      2007-09-14  2007-09-17     4     18    3   11   2   0   0    5    2    1    0   0  .611  .650  .722 1.372 HOU 
 Willy Taveras      2005-04-05  2005-04-09     4     15    3    9   1   0   0    1    2    1    1   0  .600  .625  .667 1.292 HOU
 Morgan Burkhart    2000-06-27  2000-06-30     4     15    3    8   1   0   0    4    1    4    0   0  .533  .632  .600 1.232 BOS
 Pete Coachman      1990-08-18  1990-08-21     4     18    1    8   1   0   0    4    4    1    0   0  .444  .474  .500  .974 CAL
 Doug Dascenzo      1988-09-02  1988-09-05     4     19    3   10   3   0   0    4    0    1    0   0  .526  .550  .684 1.234 CHC 
 Nyls Nyman         1974-09-10  1974-09-13     4     14    5    9   2   1   0    4    1    0    1   0  .643  .667  .929 1.596 CHW 
 Ken Griffey        1973-08-25  1973-08-29     4     17    3    9   2   0   0    0    1    0    1   0  .529  .529  .647 1.176 CIN   
 Rich Coggins       1972-08-29  1972-09-05     4     16    2    9   3   0   0    0    4    0    0   0  .563  .563  .750 1.313 BAL
 Tommy Helms        1965-09-01  1965-09-04     4     16    2    9   2   1   0    2    2    2    1   0  .563  .611  .813 1.424 CIN 
 Gene Baker         1954-04-13  1954-04-18     4     17    7    9   3   0   2    7    0    3    0   0  .529  .600 1.059 1.659 CHC 

 Ian Desmond        2009-09-10  2009-09-13     3     13    2    8   3   0   1    4    2    1    0   0  .615  .643 1.077 1.720 WSN 
plus many more with three

As the baseball season enters its final stretch lets take a look at all the teams since 1901 to win at least 17 of their final  20 regular season games. For a more extensive list including the teams before 1901,  you can view my original search here.

Tm  Sched  StartDate    EndDate      Games       W-L      WP     RS     RA   Tot W-L   Rnk Postseason
---+-----+-----------+-----------+-----------+---------+------+------+------+---------+---+------------------+
NYY sched  1960-09-10  1960-10-02   136-155     18-2      .900     94     57   97-57     1 AL Pennant
CHC sched  1935-09-07  1935-09-29   135-154     18-2      .900    129     53  100-54     1 NL Pennant
OAK sched  2001-09-09  2001-10-07   143-162     17-3      .850    120     65  102-60     2 Wildcard
MON sched  1994-07-22  1994-08-11    95-114     17-3      .850    102     60   74-40     1
CLE sched  1952-09-05  1952-09-28   136-155     17-3      .850    103     49   93-61     2
BAL sched  1970-09-10  1970-10-01   143-162     17-3      .850     98     50  108-54     1 WS Champ
STL sched  1942-09-06  1942-09-27   137-156     17-3      .850     92     46  106-48     1 WS Champ

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Check out the longest streaks in 2009 where a starter had at least 6 IP in each game:

                  StreakStart  Streak End Games   W   L   GS  CG SHO  GF  SV   IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO   HR   ERA  HBP  WP  BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Adam Wainwright    2009-04-16  2009-08-25    25   14   7  25   1   0   0   0  176.2  164   55   50   46  146  15   2.55   2   6   0 STL                                  

 Ubaldo Jimenez     2009-05-01  2009-08-23    22   11   6  22   1   0   0   0  155.1  123   51   49   49  135   9   2.84   5   6   2 COL                                  

 Danny Haren        2009-04-07  2009-07-18    19   10   5  19   3   1   0   0  138     93   32   30   18  137  12   1.96   2   4   0 ARI                                  

 Josh Beckett       2009-05-05  2009-08-12    18   12   2  18   3   2   0   0  128.1   96   37   31   26  114   9   2.17   4   0   0 BOS                                  

 Tim Lincecum       2009-04-18  2009-07-17    17   10   1  17   3   2   0   0  126.1   91   31   27   29  149   4   1.92   2   6   0 SFG                                  

 Zach Duke          2009-05-12  2009-07-29    15    6   6  15   2   0   0   0  104.1  104   40   40   25   52  11   3.45   3   2   0 PIT                                  

Both Wainwright and Jiminez have active streaks.

Going back to 2005, Roy Halladay has the longest streak:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games   W   L   GS  CG SHO  GF  SV   IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO   HR   ERA  HBP  WP  BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Roy Halladay       2008-06-20  2009-06-07    32   22   6  32   7   3   0   0  238.1  212   75   67   38  208  16   2.53   7   5   0 TOR                                  

 C.C. Sabathia      2008-04-22  2008-09-16    28   15   6  28   9   5   0   0  213.1  176   52   47   41  216  14   1.98   5   2   1 CLE-MIL                              
 Chris Carpenter    2005-04-16  2005-09-13    28   20   3  28   7   4   0   0  216    165   54   49   44  197  15   2.04   2   3   0 STL                                  

 Roy Halladay       2007-07-17  2008-06-08    27   14   8  27  10   1   0   0  211.2  195   76   69   37  148  13   2.93   9   2   0 TOR                                  
 Brandon Webb       2005-07-26  2006-06-10    27   14   6  27   2   2   0   0  197.1  179   59   53   32  149  14   2.42   4   5   2 ARI                                  
 Tom Glavine        2005-07-15  2006-06-03    27   15   8  27   2   1   0   0  189.1  155   54   50   43  122  12   2.38   5   0   0 NYM                                  

 Adam Wainwright    2009-04-16  2009-08-25    25   14   7  25   1   0   0   0  176.2  164   55   50   46  146  15   2.55   2   6   0 STL                                  
 Roy Halladay       2006-05-03  2006-09-05    25   13   4  25   4   0   0   0  181.2  168   69   66   28  113  16   3.27   4   2   0 TOR                                  

 Ubaldo Jimenez     2009-05-01  2009-08-23    22   11   6  22   1   0   0   0  155.1  123   51   49   49  135   9   2.84   5   6   2 COL                                  
 Danny Haren        2008-09-16  2009-07-18    22   12   5  22   4   2   0   0  160    112   39   37   21  162  13   2.08   2   5   0 ARI                                  
 Pedro Martinez     2005-04-04  2005-08-03    22   12   3  22   2   0   0   0  157    107   50   49   31  163  12   2.81   2   4   0 NYM                                  

The 2009 leaders both have a shot to match that streak but probably not this season.