Jumping off from the Stat of the Day, I was curious as to which pitcher started off his “Yankees career” with the longest streak of 7+ inning games – since 1954.  The answer can be found via the link below.  I had forgotten that Ken Holtzman got off to such a hot start with the Yanks in 1976.  Too bad he had an ERA of 6.75 in the nine games that followed his blazing pinstripe debut…

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games   W   L   GS  CG SHO  GF  SV   IP     H    R   ER   BB   SO   HR   ERA  HBP  WP  BK Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Bob Turley         1955-04-15  1955-05-15     7    6   1   7   6   2   0   0   62     25   15   14   44   69   5   2.03   2   3   0 NYY
 Ken Holtzman       1976-06-18  1976-07-16     6    3   2   6   4   2   0   0   49.2   41   14   13    7   12   3   2.36   0   2   0 NYY
 Tommy John         1979-04-08  1979-04-29     5    4   0   5   2   1   0   0   40     32    6    5    7    9   0   1.13   1   0   0 NYY
 Denny Neagle       2000-07-18  2000-08-02     4    2   1   4   1   0   0   0   31     23   10    9    9   23   1   2.61   0   3   1 NYY
 David Cone         1995-07-29  1995-08-13     4    4   0   4   1   0   0   0   32     21    8    8   16   31   3   2.25   0   2   0 NYY
 Mel Stottlemyre    1964-08-12  1964-08-26     4    3   1   4   2   1   0   0   34.2   22    6    4   14   10   1   1.04   1   0   0 NYY
 Tommy Byrne        1954-09-08  1954-09-22     4    3   1   4   4   1   0   0   35     27    8    7   16   20   1   1.80   0   0   0 NYY