Phillies Sanchez is Nearing Orel’s Scoreless Innings Record

Yeah something seems off. either way 44 innings is pretty amazing. I wish him well but hope for selfish reasons. He stops short of number 55  that year was pretty magical for a lot of of us

Yeah, the “only guy to pitch 7 innings in 5 straight starts” factoid never had a ring of truth to it.  Even if you’re only considering Phillies pitchers.  I suspect it might be accurate if you changed it to “only gut to pitch 7 SCORELESS innings in 5 straight starts.”

But pitching 7 innings, prior to 1980, was no big deal.  The top starters all had 25-30 complete games per year.

It took me 30 seconds to Google “most consecutive complete games Phillies” and come up with this:

https://www.mlb.com/news/roberts-17-inning-outing-defines-illustrious-career/c-38773650

The short version is that Robin Roberts once pitched 28 consecutive complete games for the Phillies.  In one of them he pitched 17 innings.

Through the 60s and early 70s, I would say it was unusual for any frontline starter not to pitch 7 innings in 5 straight starts.

Yeah I mean I don’t wanna distract from the kid but that had one of those bs ai elements to it

And it’s funny because Robin Roberts was the very one I was thinking of that had to have done it.  And it appears he made a career of doing it

and Steve Carlton.

Also found this:

Go to baseball r/baseball • 3y ago coolmon

In 1993, Tommy Greene threw 5 straight complete games.

5/12: 9 IP 5 H 1 R 1 ER 1 BB 6 K 103 Pitches

5/18: 9 IP 6 H 0 R 0 ER 1 BB 10 K 109 Pitches

5/24: 9 IP 5 H 3 R 2 ER 3 BB 7 K 142 Pitches

5/30: 9 IP 6 H 1 R 1 ER 1 BB 6 K 112 Pitches

6/5: 9 IP 7 H 2 R 2 ER 0 BB 8 K 113 Pitches

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=greento01&t=p&year=1993