Orioles' 1966 record tied

[WillyM]

It doesn't seem to have received a great deal of notice, but the postseason record for consecutive scoreless innings by a pitching staff, set by the Orioles in 1966, has now been tied.

The Orioles shut down the Dodgers for 33 consecutive innings in the '66 World Series.  Moe Drabowsky pitched six scoreless innings in relief in game 1, then Jim Palmer, Wally Bunker, and Dave McNally recorded complete-game shutouts in games 2, 3, and 4.

After the Padres touched up Walker Buehler for six runs in the second inning of game 3 in the NLDS, this year's Dodgers looked like anything but a team likely to put together a record scoreless string.  But the Dodgers held the Padres scoreless in the third through the eighth innings of that game, shut out the Padres in games 4 and 5, and shut out the Mets in game 1 of the NLCS, making a total of 33 consecutive scoreless innings.

As an indication of how the game has changed over the intervening 58 years, the Dodgers used twelve different pitchers during those 33 innings.

When the Dodgers, after having been wildly successful with a bullpen game in game 4 against the Padres, tried the same thing in game 2 against New York, Francisco Lindor led off the first inning with a homer, thus preventing LA from extending the streak any further.

The Orioles, of course, are still the undisputed holders of the World Series record.