
Effectively Wild Episode 2009: Safe By a Hair
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Longest Strike of a Right Handed Pitcher
Tonight, Friday makes 162 straight games for the White Sox Where they started a right handed pitcher Sounds weird, right? No lefties starting games for them And really, last time I checked, which was when Jake Deakman went from the White Sox to the race They only had one lefty on their whole pitching staff, Aaron Bummer So they just have been very light on lefties. The longest streak of just having right-handed pitchers start Puts this White Sox streak to shame. It's from 19th century baseball When the 1887 to 1888 Baltimore Orioles had 44 straight lefty starts it was just two pitchers,. Matt Kilroy and Phenomenal Smith Phenomenal Smith
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