Holtzman Was A Horse For Yanks, At First…
Posted by Steve Lombardi on May 22nd 2009 · Comments (0)
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
