A’s Tie Obscure MLB Record!
2008-04-19 2:15
With Chad Gaudin picking up the victory in last night’s 13-2 win over Kansas City, the A’s have now won 10 games on the season, each with a different winning pitcher. The 10 wins with 10 different winning pitchers to start a season ties the MLB record held by the 1973 Chicago Cubs and the 1992 California Angels.
No team has ever gotten their first 11 victories with 11 different pitchers. The 2008 A’s could become the first team to ever accomplish that feat, if somehow either Santiago Casilla, Keith Foulke, Andrew Brown, Kirk Saarloos, or Huston Street (or some other pitcher not currently on the roster) is the next A’s pitcher to earn a victory. Today’s attempt:
1. The streak is in jeopardy! A's have a 5-4 lead in the 7th, with Joey Devine, who already has a win, the pitcher of record.
2. I think you can stand down on the cycle alert for Barton.
3. And the streak is over. Devine becomes the first A's pitcher this year to win two games.
4. Today was my first of the season at the coliseum. Great game, sitting in 217 right behind the plate. Also the first time I've taken BART to a game as an adult. Tailgating is fun, but not spending $15 and driving all that way up 880 is even more funner.
5. 3 But the errors streak continues on.