Scoreless innings streak

In baseball, a scoreless innings streak is the number of consecutive official innings in which a pitcher appears and allows no runs. Such a streak will end when the pitcher allows a run, earned or unearned. Since 1998, the Official Baseball Rules state that a pitcher does not get credit for any outs recorded during an inning in which he is charged with an earned or unearned run.
Orel Hershiser holds the Major League Baseball record of 59 consecutive scoreless innings which began on August 20, 1988 and ended on September 28, 1988, breaking Don Drysdale's record of 58 consecutive scoreless innings in 1968, the "Year of the Pitcher." Drysdale and Hershiser are the only pitchers to record a 50-inning streak in the live ball era; Walter Johnson and Jack Coombs both also recorded 50 consecutive scoreless innings, with Johnson's 55-inning streak being the MLB record for 55 years and still being the American League record and Coombs' 53-inning streak being the record before that.
Mariano Rivera holds the postseason record for consecutive scoreless innings, with. The second-longest postseason streak was pitched by Whitey Ford, whose 33 consecutive scoreless innings is a World Series record; Ford broke Babe Ruth's 43-year-old record of 29 scoreless innings. Christy Mathewson holds the National League record with 28 consecutive scoreless innings in the postseason.

Major League Baseball

Regular season

The following is a list of Major League pitchers with at least 40 consecutive scoreless innings pitched. Only Walter Johnson and Luis Tiant have multiple streaks of at least 40 scoreless innings, with two each.

#	Player	Team		Starting date	Ending date
1		Los Angeles Dodgers	59
2		Los Angeles Dodgers	58
3		Washington Senators
4		Philadelphia Athletics	53
5		St. [Louis Cardinals]	47
6		Los Angeles Dodgers
7		New York Giants
8		Boston Americans	45
		Chicago White Sox	45
		New York Giants	45
11		Arizona Diamondbacks
12		Chicago Cubs	44
13		Philadelphia Athletics
14		Boston Red Sox	42
		Arizona Diamondbacks	42
16		Pittsburgh Pirates	41
		Philadelphia Phillies	41
		Boston Braves	41
		Chicago White Sox	41
		Cleveland Indians	41
		Los Angeles Dodgers	41
22		Washington Senators	40
		San Francisco Giants	40
		Boston Red Sox	40

Postseason

The following is a list of pitchers with at least 20 consecutive postseason scoreless innings. Mariano Rivera holds the postseason record, and Whitey Ford holds the World Series record.

#	Player	Team		Year	Starting date	Ending date
1		New York Yankees		1998–2000
2		New York Yankees	33	1960–1962
3		Boston Red Sox	29	1916, 1918
4		New York Giants	28	1905, 1911
5		Boston Red Sox	26	2005, 2007–09
6		San Francisco Giants	24	2014, 2016
7		San Francisco Giants		2010, 2012, 2014
		Baltimore Orioles New York Yankees Cleveland Indians		2014–2016
9		Los Angeles Dodgers	22	1965–1966
10		St. Louis Cardinals		1985, 1987
		St. Louis Cardinals		2012–2013