THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

The Individual Perfect Game

By Tangotiger, 04:16 PM

A perfect game is when a team’s batters gets 27 straight outs. Well, how about a single batter who gets 27 straight outs?

Andy Fox went 38 plate appearances in 2004 without reaching base safely. Joe McEwing had 34 PA in 2002. Wil Nieves had 31 over a span of THREE YEARS!

Those are the only three players with at least 27 straight PA of not reaching base, since 1993.

(Note: actually, baseball-reference counts streaks on a game-basis rather than PA-basis. I’ll leave it to someone else to see if in the surrounding games they extended their streaks.)

• Sabermetrics • Streaks

#1 MGL (see all posts) 2010/06/09 (Wed) @ 02:38

Jason Motte of the Cardinals had retired 31 or 32 in a row before he ended the streak on Sunday night I think…

#2 weskelton (see all posts) 2010/06/09 (Wed) @ 12:37

Here’s one that’s the stuff of legend on the South Side of Chicago. Lenn Sakata started his career vs. the White Sox going 0-33 before drawing a walk. He then continues his no-hit string to a Johnny VanderMeer-like 0-66. The streak was a week shy of 7 years. I was in attendance the day he broke the streak. Not very often that an opposing player gets a standing ovation for a single.

Ah, fond memories.

Here’s Sakata’s career game log vs. the Sox…

http://www.baseballmusings.com/cgi-bin/PlayerInfo.py?StartDate=07/21/1977&EndDate=06/28/1987&GameType=all&PlayedFor=0&PlayedVs=4&Park=0&PlayerID=101596

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