John Buck's hitless streak

by BHWick on Aug 14, 2008 9:46 PM EDT Comment 9 comments

A short history of epic Royal slumps

Joe Keough: 45 at-bats in a row without a hit from April 16th to May 16th, 1969

Cookie Rojas: 43 at-bats in a row without a hit from August 7th to August 22nd, 1975

Chuck Harrison: 41 at-bats in a row without a hit from June 18th to July 23rd, 1971

Chad Kreuter: 40 at-bats in a row without a hit from August 10th to September 3rd, 1999

Steve Balboni: 31 at-bats in a row without a hit from April 19th to May 2nd, 1987

John Buck: 29 at-bats in a row without a hit from August 4th to August 14th, 2008

I'm sure there's more. But John Buck will have around 9 more ABs before Olivo returns to snap his streak.

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Infamy

This is horrible. …I feel like I remember Balboni having several streaks like this, even if most were shorter than 20 at-bats.

Do you think Buck will save the scorecard when he breaks out? Should we take bets on what kind of hit will break the streak of infamy? I’m going with a double. – TL

by timlacy on Aug 15, 2008 11:28 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What is shocking to me,

No Pena Jr. or LaRue on that list.

www.rockchalktalk.com for pretty good KU baseball coverage

by James Quinn on Aug 15, 2008 11:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

cause obviously they are much better players than those listed..duh

by ZeppelinDZ on Aug 15, 2008 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nice list

Did you find that using BBref PI? I don’t know how to search for hitless streaks.

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Aug 15, 2008 11:52 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

yeah

I searched for Royals by most games in a row without a hit.

Lynn Jones showed up on the list a few times too.

I could have had a longer list if I paid for PI

by BHWick on Aug 15, 2008 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Gotcha

I figured it out!

Other long ones:

Tom Poquette 0-33 from April 18 to June 6, 1982
Pete LaCock 0-31 from April 23 to May 13, 1980
Poquette again 0-28 from June 16 to July 2, 1978
Terry Shumpert 0-27 from July 30 to August 18, 1993

More recently:
Jason LaRue went 0-24 last year from August 4 to August 31
He went 0-22 from July 8 to July 29
TPJ went 0-25 from April 2 to April 13 of this year

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Aug 15, 2008 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs