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Erica asked in SportsBaseball · 7 years ago

longest MLB series win streak? whats the longest series win streak? i?

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  • 7 years ago
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    If you mean, and hint, you really should not mistreat your potential readers so poorly so pay more attention in English composition class this year, what is the longest streak in ML history of winning game series throughout a season -- no one knows. Or maybe Elias knows, but you'd have to ask specifically them and they want lots of money for the answer.

    Baseball does not care about series throughout the season. (Plus there are plenty of four-game series which split 2-2, and muck up the query.) Why the "series" meme has been cropping up in recent years is a mystery to me. (I do not watch ESPN, is this some drivel they've promoted to try and stay relevant? Or are sports books now taking bets?)

    Probably the only, certainly the best, way to get this information is to do some original research. BR.com and Retrosheet.org are free resources, so dig in. Here, I'll even start.

    1927 Yankees (110-44)

    W: 3-0-1, Athletics

    W: 3-1, Red Sox

    L: 1-2, Athletics

    S: 1-1, Senators

    S: 1-1, Red Sox

    W: 1-0, Athletics

    S: 2-2, Senators

    W: 2-1, White Sox

    W: 4-0, Browns

    W: 2-0, Tigers

    S: 2-2, Indians

    L: 2-3, Senators

    W: 4-1, Athletics

    W: 2-1, Tigers

    W: 3-1, White Sox

    W: 2-1, Indians

    W: 3-0, Browns

    W: 5-0, Red Sox (disgusting)

    S: 3-3, Athletics

    W: 4-0, Red Sox (...geez, it just didn't stop...)

    L: 0-1, Senators

    W: 3-0, Senators (these were one in Washington, three in NY; does it count as two series? Or one?)

    S: 3-3, Tigers

    W: 3-1, Indians

    W: 4-0, Browns

    W: 3-1, White Sox

    W: 4-0, Browns

    S: 2-2, Indians

    S: 2-2, Tigers

    S: 1-1, White Sox

    L: 0-1, Athletics

    W: 3-1, Senators

    W: 3-1, White Sox

    L: 0-3, Indians

    W: 3-0, Tigers

    W: 3-0, Browns

    W: 1-0, Red Sox

    S: 1-1, Athletics

    W: 3-2, Red Sox

    W: 3-1, Browns (hey, they won a game!)

    W: 3-1, Indians

    W: 5-0, White Sox

    S: 2-2, Tigers

    W: 1-0, Athletics

    W: 3-0, Senators

    (Postseason, just for completeness:

    W: 4-0, Pirates

    Also, for the season, the Yanx were 18-4 against the Red Sox and, get this, 21-1 against the Browns.)

    Looking back, the '27 Yanx won six series in a row at one point, which is nice in an academic way, but tells us little. Of course schedules were more haphazard back then, with curiosities like one-game homestands and six-game series. Good times, good times.

    So there ya go, one Yankees season summed up, only a few thousand more to do. Let us know the results when you finish, though interim updates would be welcome as well.

  • 7 years ago

    Not sure what you mean by longest series win streak but the longest winning streak is 22 straight wins by the Oakland A's

  • Ace
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    MLB: New York Giants (Now San Francisco Giants): 26 Games (Sept. 7-30, 1916)

    * - Longest in Major League history

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    The Cleveland Indians in 1954 won 111 games and lost 43, check their results, also the 1906 Chicago Cubs won 116 games and lost only 36 games, and the Seattle Mariners in 2001 won 116 games during a 162 game schedule, you could check those three teams out using Yahoo search or Google.

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