Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
An odd thing happened on the way to the blog. I checked the major-league scoreboard and found that every game featured (at least) one shutout.
I wondered if all the games in progress ended in a shutout would it be the first time in baseball history that an entire day's slate of games were completed without even one losing team scoring a run. So I looked it up…
The answer is that it's happened before, 127 times in baseball history actually. However, 107 of those were days in which there was just one game played.
Here are the dates with more than one date:
| Yr | Mo/Day | Num G | Num SHO |
| 1943 | 04/21 | 4 | 4 |
| 1906 | 09/23 | 3 | 3 |
| 1904 | 09/25 | 3 | 3 |
| 1963 | 05/23 | 3 | 3 |
| 1878 | 06/13 | 3 | 3 |
| 1944 | 09/05 | 3 | 3 |
| 1878 | 07/20 | 2 | 2 |
| 1878 | 09/11 | 2 | 2 |
| 1877 | 08/21 | 2 | 2 |
| 1878 | 09/03 | 2 | 2 |
| 1952 | 06/26 | 2 | 2 |
| 1899 | 04/30 | 2 | 2 |
| 1910 | 10/07 | 2 | 2 |
| 1880 | 05/13 | 2 | 2 |
| 1899 | 08/11 | 2 | 2 |
| 1890 | 10/13 | 2 | 2 |
| 1938 | 07/25 | 2 | 2 |
| 1881 | 06/06 | 2 | 2 |
| 1965 | 08/09 | 2 | 2 |
| 1885 | 04/28 | 2 | 2 |
Dang! The Mets and Phils both just scored. Oh well.
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