There have been a couple of days this season with an unusually high number of shutouts occuring on the same day.

A quick look at shutouts over the last 10 years:

 Year Games Link to Individual Games
+----+-----+-------------------------+
 2002   275 Ind. Games                
 2008   271 Ind. Games                
 2005   261 Ind. Games                
 2006   260 Ind. Games                
 2003   259 Ind. Games                
 2004   251 Ind. Games                
 2007   243 Ind. Games                
 2001   227 Ind. Games                
 2000   204 Ind. Games                
 2009   145 Ind. Games        

The 2009 figure is through yesterday, when most teams have played about 87 of their 162 games. That's a pace of 270 for the entire year, which although on the high end for the last 10 years isn't what I'd call unusually high. If the pace holds through the rest of the year, it's true that 4 of the last 5 seasons will fall in the top 5 for most shutouts from the last decade, but this is consistent with the fact that run-scoring has been a bit down since MLB instituted testing for steroids and other banned substances.

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