Bobby Jenks: most consecutive batters retired

[downstairs]

If he played for New York, this would have been huge news:

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/507849,CST-SPT-sox13.article

Bobby Jenks as now retired 41 consecutive batters. Basically 1 1/2 perfect games in a row.

Simply amazing. Even more amazing than Orel's consecutive innings scoreless, IMHO.

[west coast orange and black]

downstairs: Bobby Jenks as now retired 41 consecutive batters.

quite a feat, yes.
but i think that comparing this streak to that of a starter's is apples + oranges.

[StanTheMan]

I don't know.... A starter has his really good stuff for ONE NIGHT, and goes after hitters. The fatigue, and hitters seeing the same pitcher three or four times is something Jenks does not have to deal with.

But getting EVERYBODY out, night after night, in pressure situations, with seemingly various degrees of your "stuff" at any given moment....

Very impressive....

AND he's on my fantasy team!

[ElHalo]

If he played for New York, this would have been huge news:


I honestly doubt that... since the record he broke was set by David Wells when Wells was a Yankee in 1998, and I wasn't even aware of it (aware that he pitched a perfect game, of course, but not the consecutive batters record).

[RuthMayBond]

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/507849,CST-SPT-sox13.article

Bobby Jenks as now retired 41 consecutive batters. Basically 1 1/2 perfect games in a row.

Simply amazing. Even more amazing than Orel's consecutive innings scoreless, IMHO.It says it's not even the record, only tied

[RuthMayBond]

I honestly doubt that... since the record he broke was set by David Wells when Wells was a Yankee in 1998.Jim Barr would like a word with you

[Sean Casey]

I honestly doubt that... since the record he broke was set by David Wells when Wells was a Yankee in 1998, and I wasn't even aware of it (aware that he pitched a perfect game, of course, but not the consecutive batters record).

Well, when a pitcher throws a perfect game, usually just about anything else that he does around the same time tends to be forgotten. I agree though that if Jenks played in Boston or New York, ESPN would have been telling us about it every day for the past few weeks.

[Padday]

This thread is stupid. Who cares if he did this. Barry Bonds just broke the homerun record, A-Rod hit his 500th homerun and Tom Glavine got his 300th win. Why would we talk about this guy. For god's sake, he plays for the Chicago White Sox. Nobody cares about them. Forget about this loser.



P.S. I'm being sarcastic by the way.;)

[KCGHOST]

Certainly Jenks deserves kudos for this, but it is more of a trivia question answer than a career defining event.

[GiambiJuice]

I'm not very impressed. He's a reliever and only has to face these batters once a game.

[west coast orange and black]

Jim Barr checked on Bobby Jenks a few times over the weekend, flipping on a television to see whether the Chicago closer had pitched. He went to bed thinking that he was still the sole record-holder for consecutive batters retired.

Barr awoke, read the paper and learned that he was wrong. Jenks had gone into the game and tied Barr by retiring his 41st straight hitter.

Asked to compare the streak for a starter versus a reliever, Barr said he hadn't really thought about it before. He mulled the question and generously pointed out all the ways that things would be tougher for Jenks, particularly keeping such a streak going against so many teams over so many games.

"As a starter, you're maybe a little bit more in a rhythm," he said. "... It's a good record, and I'm happy for Bobby in the sense that he's going out there and doing his job, especially as a closer."
-gwen knapp, sf chronicle staff writer, tuesday, 12 august 2007


here (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/14/SP45RHNJI.DTL&type=printable) is knapps' article with barr

[natsnsoxfan]

I'm not very impressed. He's a reliever and only has to face these batters once a game.

Thats not the point. Its 41 straight batters without a walk, hit, hit by pitch, error, or any other way for a guy to get on base. Its unbelievable.

[PleaseWinAWorldSeriesCubs]

I won't be impressed until he beats my own personal MLB: '06 The Show record of 47 straight batters retired. </sarcasm>