The Diamondback Puns

Previous Record was 22 set by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1943

The 1963 Mets ended up tying that record as did the Diamondbacks just last night

Against the Padres, out of all teams.

We are now 3-32 in our last 35 games and end a 17 game losing streak.

Way back in 1889 the Louisville Colonels lost 24 road games in a row

In 2011 the Mariners ended up losing 17 games in a row

Rough season for the Diamondbacks so far

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_longest_losing_streaks

The 2005 Royals lost 19 games in a row.

The 1988 Orioles lost 21 games in a row.

The 1961 Phillies lost 23 games in a row.

The 1889 Louisville Colonels lost 26 games in a row.

I don’t know if I’ve seen a stretch of a professional sports team doing this badly over this wide of stretch

#Bumgarner's final line: 7 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 7 K

One runner reached base by an error, and he only faced the minimum.

Just wanted to point out something positive my team has done before all the posts in a few minutes about us breaking the mlb record for consecutive road losses.

I’ve been watching Merrill Kelly since he joined the D-backs in 2019 and I thought it was pretty crazy (and maybe somewhat unlucky) that he’s only had 1 hit in his career so far. Obviously he’s a pitcher so it’s kinda expected, but I often wonder about these random things so I finally signed up for Stathead and looked it up to find out if anyone else has gone more plate appearances without another hit.

As of yesterday Merrill Kelly has surpassed Fred Gladding for the worst career batting average above .000. Before yesterday they were both batting .016 (both were 1 for 63), but Kelly is now 1 for 65, batting .015.

It took Kelly until his 39th PA (in his rookie year) to get his first hit. It took Gladding until his 50th PA (in his 9th year in MLB) to get his lone hit. Based on the lower number of PA you can probably tell that Gladding was a relief pitcher.

Some other fun numbers:

• Kelly’s slash line: .015/.045/.015/.060 (73 PA). Gladding’s slash line: .016/.016/.016/.031 (68 PA)
• Kelly has walked 2 times. Gladding never drew a walk.
• Kelly has 6 sac bunts. Gladding had 4 sac bunts.
• Kelly has struck out 30 times (41.1%). Gladding struck out 40 times (58.8%).
• Kelly’s lone hit was a 2-run single. The 2 runs he knocked in were the Diamondbacks’ only 2 runs in the game.
• Gladding’s lone hit was an RBI single. It was part of a pretty crazy game (there’s a story on sabr.org linked below) in which he got his bases-loaded single as part of a 11-run 9th inning by the Astros, against the Mets.

The reason I ended up adding the arbitrary minimum 50 PA threshold is because I knew there would be a lot of career .000 hitters (e.g. there are 777 players who have gone 0-1 for their career). Randy Tate holds the record for most PA with out a hit (47), going 0 for 41 in his 1 year career with the Mets in 1975. There are 9 other retired players who went between 31 and 45 PA without a hit in their career, before we get to our active players.

As far as active players go, there are quite a few who could potentially reach either of these “milestones” (the worst 0-hit career BA or worst 1-hit career BA):

• Drew Smyly (ATL) is currently 0 for 27 (29 PA)
• Cody Reed (TB) is currently 0 for 25 (29 PA)
• Robert Stephenson (COL) is currently 1 for 36 (.028) (42 PA)
• Elieser H

.540 winning percentage amongst remaining opponents, per the chyron/scrollingmcdoodlethingy on Bally Sports Midwest.

IT'S STEP ON SNEK SZN, Y'ALL.

Our last road win was on April 25th vs the Braves

The Suns have gone 17-6 during that period while the Diamondbacks have gone 9-35

We are on pace for a 51-111 record

How I feel watching the Diamondbacks

After having the worst May since the 1935 Boston Braves with a 5-24 record (see here for more info) the Arizona Diamondbacks managed to have an even worse June somehow winning 2 fewer games than their pathetic May performance.

#Game 1

##FINAL: 7-1 Cardinals Decisions

• Cardinals Winning Pitcher: Giovanny Gallegos (W, 5-1)
• Diamondbacks Losing Pitcher: Alex Young (L, 2-6)

Postgame Wrap

• Wrap
• Baseball Theater

Highlights

• Cardinals: Dylan Carlson's RBI triple
• Cardinals: Wade LeBlanc escapes a jam
• Diamondbacks: Josh Rojas' solo home run
• Diamondbacks: Jake Faria fans Goldschmidt
• Cardinals: Génesis Cabrera leaves 'em loaded
• Cardinals: Tyler O'Neill's outstanding dive
• Cardinals: Dylan Carlson's RBI single
• Cardinals: Paul Goldschmidt's RBI single
• Cardinals: Yadier Molina's two-run double
• Cardinals: [Paul DeJong's two-

Teams in the post-integration era (since 1947) that started off 22-57 (or worse) and how they finished:

2021 ARI: 22-57
2019 BAL: 22-57 (finished 54-108)
1982 MIN: 22-57 (finished 60-102)
1962 NYM: 22-57 (finished 40-120)
1979 OAK: 22-57 (finished 54-108)
1952 PIT: 21-58 (finished 42-112-1)
2003 DET: 18-61 (finished 43-119)

At least this is good for their first overall pick chances - although even then, they're still "only" 2.5 games ahead of the Orioles (currently 24-54).

This un-fun fact is from the Mets broadcast during last night's game.

The Boston Braves went 4-20 in May 1935 with a .167 win percentage. They finished the year with a 38-115 record. The Boston Braves lost 15 consecutive games from July 6-July 21.

The Arizona Diamondbacks went 5-24 in May 2021 with a .172 win percentage. They lost 13 consecutive games from May 12-May 29.

The Orioles came close to tying the Diamondbacks with a 5-23 record in May 2021. They have lost 14 consecutive games since May 18 (streak active).

Arizona Diamondbacks April/May splits

22 games (currently working on 23) straight for the DBacks and 19 games straight for the O’s.

It’s simple, all we need to do is have one of our guys throw another no hitter and our streaks will end.

So I just looked at the 10 worst teams ever, and of them only the worst team ever, the 1916 A's, also did this. Here's what it looks like for them (only counting full months):

So that's one team that did this. I also checked some recent terrible teams and noticed that the 2019 Tigers did this, winning exactly 5 games in both June and July.

It's possible others have done this, since I didn't check every team ever, and perhaps some teams had very bad stretches in years which weren't otherwise horrible. But even looking at teams with the longest losing streaks ever - like the 1961 Phillies - didn't do this.

Obviously this is limited to the post-1901 era.

We lost 13 straight from May 16th-29th

Now we have an active 9 game losing streak from June 2nd-present

What we make of this?

They join the 1943 Philadelphia Athletics and the 1963 Mets