One Is Enough

Something amazing happened recently that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere. Over three days last week there were a total of SIX 1-0 games: two on August 12, two more in the 13th, and two more on the 14th. To put that in perspective, consider:

• There is only one other three-day span in the last 40 years with more than five 1-0 games: August 8-10, 1968, when there were seven. That's easy to imagine for The Year of the Pitcher, but unbelievable in this hitters' era!
  


• Just having two or more 1-0 games on the same day has never been a common occurrence. From 1993-2001, no season had more than three!

Days with Multiple 1-0 games


1965  4   1975  2   1985  5   1995  2
1966  6   1976 13   1986  1   1996  1
1967  6   1977  2   1987  3   1997  1
1968 15   1978  5   1988  9   1998  2
1969  6   1979  4   1989  6   1999  2
1970  2   1980  6   1990  4   2000  3
1971 14   1981  1   1991  6   2001  3
1972 14   1982  1   1992  5   2002  4
1973 10   1983  3   1993  3   2003  1
1974 11   1984  5   1994  1   2004  4

• Only once since 1991 has there been as many as four 1-0 games in a three-day period, with at least one on each day.
  

Now that's improbable!

Extra Esoterica:

• There were four 1-0 games on September 2, 2001, the most on any one day in the past 30 years. Those four accounted for 11% of the season's 36 1-0 games!
  
• There were 1-0 games on nine consecutive days (and 11 of 12) in May of 1968.
  
• There was exactly one 1-0 game on eight consecutive days from April 24 to May 1, 1989 (and on 10 of 11 days from April 21 to May 1).

1-0 Games: 1965-2004