You didn't really think he could do it, did you?
Brandon Webb surrendered a run in the first inning on Wednesday night's game against the Brewers, ending his streak of consecutive scoreless innings at 42 -- 17 shy of tying
Orel Hershiser's record. Webb would have needed back-to-back complete game shutouts to break it, which
isn't easy to do. Now that some attention has been brought to the record, I'm thinking it might be as
tough to break as
Joe DiMaggio's
56 game hitting streak. Not surprisingly,
Webb is relieved that it's all over:
"It was really a relief," Webb said of the streak coming to an end Wednesday.
...
"I was feeling it a little bit today, with all the attention it was getting, so to get it out of the way in the first inning I think was a relief," Webb said. "And I was able to get back pretty quickly and get back to where I wanted to be and ended up throwing a pretty good ballgame."
The bottom line, as Tom Fornelli
pointed out, is that the D-Backs won the game. The final was 3-2, allowing Arizona to remain in first in the NL West by three and a half games. With 34 games left on Arizona's schedule, Webb could throw nothing but complete game shutouts for the rest of the season, and he still wouldn't reach Hershiser's mark. Now
that's impressive.
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