From Brandon Webb to Zac Gallen, Diamondbacks pitchers have gone on remarkable scoreless-inning runs that put them in the franchise record books.
Brandon Webb’s shutout streak of 42 innings isn’t quite a distant memory, but several moments from the run in 2007 have become less clear with the passage of time. Matched up against the heavy hitting Braves, Webb was coming off his second consecutive shutout. On paper, the stacked Braves lineup, with the likes of Chipper Jones and Andruw Jones, looked like a considerable threat to end Webb’s shutout streak and his chances to join an elite club..
Backed by a spectacular infield led by second baseman Orlando Hudson and shortstop Stephen Drew, Webb only gave up two hits in the game, and only one runner advanced to second base. Fifteen years have passed since Webb set the franchise record and remains one of the few to approach Orel Hershiser’s major-league record of 59 scoreless innings set in 1988 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The mark still stands, and interest in it has renewed with Diamondbacks' right-hander Zac Gallen now second behind Webb with an ongoing streak of 34 1/3 innings.
"He caught himself and he said, I’m not doing that, I’m just going to go out there and pitch my game. If I end up giving up a run, it happens and then it wasn’t supposed to be. Which was good because I wish I could’ve done that to myself when I was around the 38 to 42 mark. It would’ve been good advice to myself."
Webb’s stretch of complete game shutouts also came in early August, a time where teams prefer to conserve energy from their starters for a potential postseason run. For Webb, the scoreless streak didn’t hit him until it stretched past 30 innings after his second consecutive shutout on Aug.11. But his individual stats weren’t weighing heavily on him at the time. The previous season, 2006, the year he won the NL Cy Young Award, Webb pitched 30 scoreless innings with two consecutive shutouts, a feat that he forgot about until recently.
“He really set the tone knowing that if you’re going to have a guy like that — the scoreless innings streak aside — you’re going to have a guy that’s going to compete and hold the other team in check and give you the opportunity where if you’re only going to score a couple of runs and have a chance to win, that absolutely builds confidence when you get a guy like that once every five days,” Snyder said.
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