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Royals’ win streak is so unique it hasn’t happened in Major League Baseball since 1907

Pete Grathoff
·2 min read
Bill Streicher/USA TODAY Sports

How’s this for an odd stat: The Royals’ current seven-game winning streak represents 19.4% of their season total for victories.

After opening the season with a 29-75 record, the Royals have reeled off seven straight wins. The hot streak is one of the most remarkable in Major League Baseball history.

This is from Opta Sports: “The @Royals are the first MLB team to have a sub-.300 winning percentage at least 100 games into a season and then proceed to win 7 in a row since the 1907 Cardinals were 23-78 (.228) before reeling off 9 straight wins.”

That was 116 years ago when Teddy Roosevelt was president and just four years after the Wright brothers took flight for the first time. So, yeah, it’s been a while since we’ve seen something like what the Royals are doing.

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The Cardinals’ winning streak in 1907 was from Aug. 8 to Aug. 16, and oddly all nine of the victories came against the same team: The Boston Doves (known today as the Atlanta Braves).

St. Louis won the first five games at home, then the teams took the train to Boston and St. Louis swept four games in Massachusetts.

Pitcher Ulysses Simpson Grant McGlynn, better known as Stoney, won four games for the Cardinals during the win streak. That included a relief appearance on Aug. 11 in which the Cardinals beat Doves pitcher Big Jeff Pfeffer.

Stoney pitched complete games on consecutive days (Aug. 10 and 11).

Despite the nine-game winning streak, the Cardinals finished last in the National League. St. Louis, 52-101-2, ended 55 1/2 games behind the pennant-winning Chicago Cubs (with the famous Tinker to Evers to Chance infield stars). The Doves, who were 58-90-4, finished one spot ahead of the Cardinals in the standings.

After starting the season with a 23-78 record, the Cardinals finished with a 35-23-2 mark. A similar strong end to the season is what the Royals undoubtedly hope for in 2023.

One other note: this year’s Cardinals team got off to the worst start in franchise history since, you guessed it, 1907.