Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 24, 2007
The Maddux Streak

Greg Maddux won his tenth game of the season tonight, setting a record:

Even Cy Young didn't win this many games for so many years in a row.

Greg Maddux became the first pitcher to win 10 games in 20 consecutive seasons, tossing seven solid innings in the San Diego Padres' 14-3 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night.

Milton Bradley hit a pair of three-run homers and Adrian Gonzalez also connected twice for the Padres, who moved three games ahead of the Phillies in the NL wild-card race. Josh Bard had five of the Padres' season-high 22 hits.

What's more impressive is that if he can win three more game this season, he'll have won at least thirteen games in each of those 20 seasons. If someone just won 10 games a year 20 years in a row, I wouldn't be that impressed, but Maddux was well over that mark in each of the previous nineteen seasons.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:28 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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