Zack Greinke
Posted by Andy on April 30, 2009
Last night, Zack Grienke won his 5th game of the year in his 5th start, but he broke his string of starts allowing no earned runs. Turns out he set the record for most starts allowing no runs and getting the win from the start of a season (1954 to present):
StreakStart Streak End Games W L GS CG SHO GF SV IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA HBP WP BK Teams +-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Zack Greinke 2009-04-08 2009-04-24 4 4 0 4 2 1 0 0 29 19 1 0 6 36 0 0.00 1 1 0 KCR Dontrelle Willis 2004-04-08 2004-04-20 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 19.1 13 1 0 5 15 0 0.00 2 0 0 FLA Woody Williams 2003-04-02 2003-04-18 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 19.2 11 0 0 3 13 0 0.00 1 0 0 STL Tommy Greene 1991-05-01 1991-05-28 3 3 0 3 2 2 0 0 24 5 0 0 9 24 0 0.00 1 0 0 PHI Roger Moret 1973-04-22 1973-08-02 3 3 0 3 2 2 0 0 23.2 16 1 0 11 18 0 0.00 0 0 0 BOS Luis Tiant 1966-04-17 1966-05-03 3 3 0 3 3 3 0 0 27 14 0 0 8 25 0 0.00 0 0 0 CLE Tom Cheney 1963-04-11 1963-04-26 3 3 0 3 3 2 0 0 27 8 1 0 2 26 0 0.00 0 0 0 WSA Don Larsen 1958-04-15 1958-05-13 3 3 0 3 2 2 0 0 23 15 0 0 10 11 0 0.00 0 0 0 NYY
Greinke allowed 2 ER in 7 IP last night but still got the win. His troubles have been well-documented and this is a guy we should all root for to continue to succeed.
Greinke is the cover story on this week's Sports Illustrated. Click on the image above to read the story on their web site.