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kgblues
02-27-00, 07:06 AM
What pitcher holds the record for consecutive scoreless innings?
And whose record did he break?

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bxny
02-27-00, 12:02 PM
Orel Hershisher? I know he had a long streak of (50+?) shutout innings while he was with the Dodgers. I believe it was Whitey Fords record he broke.

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kgblues
02-27-00, 02:43 PM
bxny, you got the first part right.

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clipper
02-28-00, 05:27 AM
Hershisher's record is 59 2/3 innings, set in the Dodgers' pennant drive of '88. The record had been held by Don Drysdale.

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kgblues
02-28-00, 07:05 AM
You got it Clipper. Quite a streak. Thats alot of zero's

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