How to end a plunkless streak

As you may have noticed, Craig Biggio has gone 33 consecutive games without getting hit by a pitch. That ranks 14th in his career, for most consecutive games without being hit. He's had 144 plate appearances since his last plunk, and that ranks 15th in his career. But, he has snapped out of plunkless streaks of 30 or more games 17 different times in his career, so it's worth looking at the circumstances under which most of those plunk-free streaks were broken.

8 of those 17 streaks were snapped at home, but only 6 plunks that ended 30 game plunkless streaks were recorded in games the Astros won. On April 29, 2000, Biggio broke out of a 35 game plunkless streak with a 2 plunk game in Milwaukee, but that was the only multi-plunk game to end a streak of this length. Biggio has ended long plunkless streaks against ten different teams, but the Mets helped end 4 of them - streaks of 31, 37, 48 and 70 games. Tonight's opponents, the Reds, have broken streaks of 45 and 59 plunkless games for Biggio. The 59 game streak was the first 59 games of Biggio's career, ending when the Reds threw plunk number 1.

Biggio has ended a 30 game plunkless streak by getting hit to lead of the game 3 times. In total, he's ended streaks in the first inning 5 times, but done it 8 times in his first plate appearance of the game. He ended his original plunkless streak, and a 31 game drought in 1993 with a 10th inning plunk, and he ended two other streaks by getting hit in the 9th inning. No pitcher has ended one of these streaks more than once.

Biggio has batterd just 11 for 43 with one home run in the 17 games that ended 30+ game plunkless streaks, which is not the sort of stat that would make anyone root for a streak to end. But, keep in mind that overall, Craig Biggio has batted .297 in games in which he gets hit by at least one pitch, and .281 in plunk-free games. So, a plunkless streak

Craig Biggio's streaks of 30 or more unplunked games:

Games	PA	Streak	Ended by:	Ended on:	Opp
115	479	9/3/89 to 7/21/90	Mark Gardner	7/22/90	Expos
88	387	8/31/91 to 6/10/92	Michael Jackson	6/12/92	Giants
71	290	6/8/91 to 8/29/91	Barry Jones	8/30/91	Expos
70	287	9/3/90 to 6/6/91	Ron Darling	6/7/91	Mets
61	277	9/9/92 to 5/18/93	Jeff Brantley	5/19/93	Giants
59	155	6/26/88 to 4/20/89	Tim Birtsas	4/22/89	Reds
48	212	8/18/04 to 4/11/05	Braden Looper	4/13/05	Mets
45	209	8/25/98 to 4/24/99	Pete Harnisch	4/25/99	Reds
41	193	7/26/99 to 9/8/99	Paul Byrd	9/9/99	Phillies
37	171	6/13/92 to 7/25/92	Jim Bullinger	7/26/92	Cubs
37	140	5/20/89 to 7/3/89	Bob Ojeda	7/4/89	Mets
35	166	9/14/99 to 4/28/00	Everett Stull	4/29/00	Brewers
35	163	6/13/94 to 7/22/94	Steve Cooke	7/23/94	Pirates
33+	144	4/18/07 to ?	?	?	?
32	146	6/28/00 to 4/6/01	Bronson Arroyo	4/7/01	Pirates
32	142	6/9/93 to 7/16/93	Bob Tewksbury	7/17/93	Cardinals
32	133	8/18/06 to 9/27/06	Chuck James	9/29/06	Braves
31	149	8/1/93 to 9/6/93	John Franco	9/7/93	Mets