The well of adjectives and adverbs to describe Jack Flaherty’s past two months of work all but had run dry, so the recourse was to place his past dozen starts into a perspective which encompassed Bob Gibson, John Tudor and Chris Carpenter, who had memorable streaks in their best seasons.
Gibson, in his record-setting 1968 season, had a 16-game stretch in which he was 15-0 with 10 shutouts and an earned run average of 0.68. When lefthander Tudor won 20 of 21 decisions in a 26-game stretch in 1985, he also had 10 shutouts and an ERA of 1.