Sunday, February 6, 2011

18 games in September: XVII

The Giants blasted the Cubs with 13 runs and shut them out. It was a good day as the Dodgers beat a fading Mat Latos and the Giants reclaimed first place by a half-game. The Streak™ reached seventeen games! Here's what I said then:
 It's the best pitching I've ever seen.
Not very deep or original, I grant you. But true! True enough to win the World Series!

--M.C.
                                                              
Pitching                     IP H R ER BB SO HR  ERA BF Pit Str
Madison  Bumgarner W (6-6)    7 7 0  0  1  9  0 3.06 28 103  73
Guillermo  Mota               1 0 0  0  0  1  0 4.59  3  10   6
Dan  Runzler                  1 0 0  0  0  2  0 3.16  3  15   8
Team Totals                   9 7 0  0  1 12  0 0.00 34 128  87

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 2/5/2011.
 

1 comment:

JC Parsons said...

It is safe to say that The Streak has attained national attention by now. And it is also safe to say that "it's the best pitching I've ever seen" since the only teams with better streaks are from 1906, 1908, 1916, and 1917!!!!
It is a remarkable achievement, largely because it took so many people to be so good.