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Most Shutouts in a Single Day

Posted by Sean Forman on May 15, 2009

A reader asked about the most shutouts in a single day of major league play. Brushing off the db, these are the most we found.


| date_game  | shutouts |
+------------+----------+
| 1972-06-04 |        8 |
| 1942-08-23 |        7 |
| 1964-05-24 |        7 |
| 1944-05-14 |        7 |
| 2006-09-05 |        7 |
| 1968-08-26 |        7 |
| 1908-09-07 |        7 |
| 1914-05-30 |        7 |
| 1915-09-06 |        7 |

You can find links to box scores etc. via our standings script.

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2 Responses to “Most Shutouts in a Single Day”

  1. JDV Says:
    May 15th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    When it occurred 7 times on the dates in 1942 / 1944 / 1908 / 1914 / 1915, there were only 16 Major League teams. That means that, barring any double-headers, 7 out of 8 games on those days were shutouts...pretty amazing.

  2. gerry Says:
    May 16th, 2009 at 1:52 am

    There were 24 Major League teams in 1914-15. I didn't check 1915, but several of the 7 shutouts on 30 May 1914 were in Federal League games. Also, there were many doubleheaders that day. You can check all these things at Retrosheet.

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