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September 13, 2013With last night’s crucial rain-soaked blowout win over the Chicago White Sox, the Cleveland Indians have now won nine in a row against their long-time division rival.
The Indians Twitter account shared earlier today that, per Elias Sports, it is the longest winning streak in franchise history over the White Sox.
That statistic was confirmed by Baseball-Reference’s Play Index. Using that tool, I then set out to find the longest winning streaks against an individual team in Indians franchise history. To be exact, this current nine-game streak over the White Sox is the 29th streak of its kind since 1916.
Here are all of those streaks:
Cleveland has only had two such nine-game winning streaks against an individual opponent since the 2000 season. Their last one was a 10-game roll over the Kansas City Royals in 2005.
In this most recent stretch, the Indians are out-scoring the White Sox by an average of 8.0-4.0. The offense, obviously, has been the significant reason why, as evidenced by last night’s 14-run outburst. The team is batting .331/.398/.536 in this stretch.
On the season, the Indians are 12-2 (.857) against the South Side Sox with a fortunate five games remaining. Jason Kipnis (1.029 OPS in 45 PA), Ryan Raburn (1.319 OPS in 39 PA) and Yan Gomes (1.281 OPS in 32 PA) have led the charge offensively in these 14 games.
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I would have thought Tampa Bay would be on here as we owned them for years… but winning that many games against the same team is no easy feat. Surprised its happened as often as it has, especially with some long stretches of tough years.
How much must it have sucked to be a Chicago fan at that game last night? Your team is long out of contention, the guy taking the mound isn’t somebody you’re going to get excited about for the future, the game is all but over by the end of the 4th inning, and then it starts to rain…
WTF happened to Baltimore in 1954?? 17 straight losses??? Damn.
It’s also WTF happened to Cleveland…we were a World Series team, then, don’t you know?
Thank heavens for the White Sox