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[Otto von Ballpark]

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[Otto von Ballpark]

I'll go first:

Longest Twins team streak without hitting  a HR is 12 games in 1981 (albeit spanning both sides of the strike).

Longest Twins team streak without *allowing* a HR is 9, from 1976.

[IndianaTwin]

Most consecutive post-season games without a win? 

Oh, wait, I'm reminded of that answer about every five TD posts or so...

 

But yeah, my son is a huge user of Stathead. He loves it. 

[Otto von Ballpark]

1 hour ago, IndianaTwin said:

Most consecutive post-season games without a win? 

Oh, wait, I'm reminded of that answer about every five TD posts or so...

That got me curious about the next longest streaks:

Rk		Strk Start	End	Games	W	L	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	HBP	WP	BK	Opp
1	MIN	2004-10-06	2020-09-30	18	0	18	0	0	0	161.2	167	107	96	65	129	30	5.34	2	8	0	NYY,OAK,HOU
2	BOS	1986-10-25	1995-10-06	13	0	13	3	0	0	115.1	122	71	66	50	90	13	5.15	9	5	1	NYM,OAK,CLE
3	PHI	1915-10-09	1976-10-12	11	0	11	4	0	0	96.2	89	41	34	37	47	8	3.17	2	3	0	BOS,NYY,CIN
4	ATL-MLN	1958-10-06	1991-10-09	10	0	10	0	0	0	86.1	107	66	57	34	66	12	5.94	1	3	0	NYY,NYM,STL,PIT
5	KCR	1980-10-19	1985-10-09	10	0	10	1	0	0	88.2	87	44	32	21	42	8	3.25	2	2	0	PHI,OAK,DET,TOR
6	CHC	2003-10-12	2008-10-04	9	0	9	0	0	0	77.0	80	57	47	41	80	14	5.49	3	4	0	FLA,ARI,LAD

"End" here is the date of the last loss. Boston broke their streak with a win in 1998, Philadelphia in 1977, and Chicago in 2015.

That means, the next 5 teams after us all won the World Series within 6 years of breaking their postseason losing streaks! KC won it the very year they broke their streak; the Cubs won it the following year.

Just gotta win one game first...