Don Drysdale pitches his sixth straight shutout-a major league record

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On June 4, 1968, Los AngelesDodgers’ Don Drysdale pitches his sixth straight shutout, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5 – 0, and establishes two new major league records. Drysdale tops Doc White’s 64-year-old mark of five shutouts, and with 54 scoreless innings, he breaks Carl Hubbell’s National League string, set in 1933, by one-third, en route to a new record mark of 58 2/3 innings.

Drysdale’s mark will eventually be broken in 1988, when Orel Hershiser hurls 59 scoreless innings.

 

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