
Effectively Wild Episode 1997: This Time it Pitch Counts
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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How to Find the Longest Season Starting Strike
The 2016 Tampa Bay Rays have gone 29 games with the same win-loss sequence at the same point in the season as any previous team. Ryan: This sure reminds me of when the 1899 Cleveland Spiders did this same thing starting with Game number 64, Howlone Canney. He says a 25 game streak is 16 times more likely than a 29 game streak. But that becomes much more complicated computationally and would take about 121 days to run.
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