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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.)

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