At this point, it’s getting quite hard to believe.
When Quinn Priester starts, the Milwaukee Brewers don’t lose.
It’s not been 16 consecutive times that Priester has taken the baseball to start the game in which the Brewers have ended the ballgame as victors.
That’s the longest streak in baseball by a pitcher age-25 or younger since 1953, when the Yankees had such a streak with left-handed Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford. That streak stretched to 22 games, according to OptaStats.
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It’s an astonishing run, really, especially for a guy who didn’t even start the year with the Brewers.
Priester was once a top prospect with the Pittsburgh Pirates, but his initial foray in the majors didn’t go well.
That earned Priester a trade to the Boston Red Sox. But then Boston only let Priester throw one game in April before shipping him off to Milwaukee.
And for the Brewers, Priester has been one of the best pitchers in baseball.
Every top team needs a guy or two who breaks out, a post-hype sleeper sort of player. It’s not that Priester is old. This is probably entirely legitimate and sustainable.
Just for whatever reason, he needed some Midwest scenery to get to this point.
And now, Priester and the Brewers seem an unstoppable combination.
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