Last night in Kansas City, a remarkable streak ended. Vlad Guerrero drew a walk.
It was his first walk of the season but he didn't walk the last two games of last season either. It was 29 starts without a walk. He finally walked three plate appearances into his 30th start.
Top streaks of consecutive starts without a walk for Oriole batters:
Rk Strk Start End Games AB
1 Larry Haney 1967-09-02 1968-09-18 39 137
2 Charlie Lau 1962-06-03 1964-06-17 34 134
3 Cal Ripken 1999-06-05 1999-07-21 31 130
4 Ken Gerhart 1987-04-17 1987-06-20 31 113
5 Bob Hale 1955-07-08 1955-09-11 31 124
6 Billy Ripken 1988-09-04 1989-04-30 30 97
7 Billy Gardner 1956-09-03 1957-04-20 30 119
8 Andres Mora 1976-04-21 1976-07-06 29 111
9 Vlad Guerrero 2010-10-02 2011-05-02 29 119
10 Jerry Adair 1964-05-14 1964-06-21 29 119
11 Jerry Adair 1963-07-04 1963-08-21 29 111
As you can see, Guerrero was performing a rare feat. Among the hitters on this list, Cal Ripken was the most recent streak and that was nearly 12 years ago. All in all, it's not a great streak for Vlad's performance (although during Cal's walkless streak, he OPS'ed .964) but it was kind of fun to watch.
So going back to last season, Guerrero went 123 straight plate appearance without a walk before last night.
I don't need to see another one right now.
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