My curiosity was piqued by the first day without saves in 28 years without saves the other day. I wondered how often it had happened in baseball history.

So I took a look at the Retrosheet game log to figure it out. Unfortunately, the saves data only goes back to 1957. However, I sallied forth with data for the past 50 years of baseball history.

I found that there were 221 days in which no saves were recorded, but a number of them were when only a one or two games were played. For example, the last time there were no saves was last April 3 when there was just one game played. What was so rare about the other day was that there was a full slate of games (15) around the majors.

Here are the days on which a full slate of games were played and yet no saves were recorded. Some of the days the total number of games even exceeded a full slate if there were doubleheaders played: