Fate To MLB Players: Sorry, Your Streak Must Fall
Saturday, August 25, 2007
(posted by OMDQ)
This was not a good week for streaks in baseball. First, Bobby Jenks allowed a seeing-eye single to Joey Gathright - JOEY GATHRIGHT?! - that ended his string of 41 consecutive batters retired.
Then Brandon Webb gave up a clean RBI single to Prince Fielder that halted his consecutive scoreless innings streak at 42.
And on Friday, Placido Polanco made a bad throw after fielding a Melky Cabrera chopper for his first error in 147 games and 725 chances, both major league records.
Polanco's miscue came in the first inning of a game that had been delayed just over four hours due to rain. If I had been him, I might have found myself wishing for more inclement weather to come along and wash that error right off the books.
Photo: Comcast
2 Comments:
Charlie
said...
Aug 25, 2007, 12:16:00 PM
Just heard on the Tigers broadcast, they reversed the error and gave it to the first baseman, Marcus Thames instead. The errorless streak lives on!
Matt
said...
Aug 25, 2007, 7:39:00 PM
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Pujols did not come though on his "home run in consecutive games" streak, stopping at 5.