Does baseball look the same to you as it does to me?

When we look at baseball, how much do we see?

Well, the curveball's bend and the home runs fly. The more to the game than meets the eye to get the stats compiled and the stories filed

Fans on the internet might the stats compiled and the story's filed

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on effectively wild

hello and welcome to episode 2198 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought

to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh and fangrafts and I am joined by Ben Lumburger the Ringer

the Ringer, Ben, how are you?

Well, I'm mourning the end of an era.

And the end of a record setting streak,

namely Clayton Kershaw's streak of regular season games started with a strikeout, which was snapped this week.

It ended finally on Wednesday when he made a regular season start without striking out a soul and he held this record.

I don't know how well known this was, I was aware of it, but that was his 424th regular season start.

And his streak of 423 regular season starts

with at least one strikeout

was the longest, at least since the mound was moved to its current

distance in 1893. So he had 423 starts in a row with a strikeout.

Tom Sever had 411 Nolan. Nolan Ryan had 382, and now the streak has been snapped because he

started a game against the Padres and he went three and two thirds six hits seven runs three earned one

walk one Homer no strike at's just a goose egg in that K column for the first time in his regular season career.

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