Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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Phillies Will Finish on the Plus Side

Phillies will have the third longest current streak of seasons over .500.

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Phillies Will Finish on the Plus Side

POSTED: Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 2:32 AM
Bob Vetrone Jr.

By being the first major league team to 82 victories, the Phillies will finish their ninth consecutive season with a record over .500. Only the Yankees (18 and counting) and the Red Sox (13 and counting) currently have more. And no one else is even close.

In fact, only six major league teams entered 2010 with a streak of three or more working:

Team     Yrs. 2011 Seasons      Last Non-Winning Yr.
Yankees 18 77-48      1993-2010 1992 (76-46)
Red Sox 13      77-50 1998-2010 1997 (78-84)
Phillies 9 82-44 2003-2011 2002 (80-81)
Rays 3 69-57 2008-2010 2007 (66-96)
Twins 3 55-72 2008-2010 2007 (79-83)
Cardinals     3 67-61 2008-2010 2007 (78-84)
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:47 AM, 08/23/2011
    How does this compare to the teams with consecutive losing seasons?
    — Kraymehr
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:50 PM, 08/23/2011
    Some idiot will soon complain about something
    — randy7676


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Boop – who goes by Bob Vetrone Jr. when he is undercover or paying bills – has been at the Daily News since 1982, after working for five years at the Philadelphia Bulletin up to its closing. Along with helping to build the sports scoreboards most nights, he has had great input into the papers’ special sports pullouts – March Madness, Broad Street Run, Record Breakers, Greatest Moments – as well as its day-to-day, award-winning event coverage.

A 1980 graduate of North Catholic, he took some evening college courses. Those lasted right up until the first conflict with a Big 5 doubleheader.

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He has been immersed in sports statistics since the early 70s, when his father (long-time sports writer, broadcaster and the Daily News’ Buck The Bartender), would take him into the Bulletin newsroom overnight in the summer and let him update the Phillies statistics in a little, black spiral notebook. But things have changed tremendously in the decades since … He now uses a big, black spiral notebook. Email him at boopstats@phillynews.com.


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