It takes a special talent to go 27 starts without a win. You have to be both bad and unlucky. For Reyes the streak goes back 3 years to June 13, 2008 when he last won a game for his previous team, the Atlanta Braves.
For one thing you need to have a manager who will continue to send you out there despite your inability to win. And you have to be unlucky. Take last night's game when Reyes pitched a shutout over 7 innings. The Blue Jay bullpen needed to only hold the lead over two innings to end Reyes' streak. John Roach immediately coughed up the lead in the eighth inning to end any possibility of a Reyes win.
During the streak his team did not lose every start. His team won 7 games during the streak but he never got the decision. Reyes was tagged with the loss in only 12 games.
Somewhere out there Matt Keough is smiling. Keough holds the distinction of going 28 starts without a win for the 1978-79 Oakland A’s, the longest such streak since 1920.
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