When Will Aaron Rowand Take a Walk?

Aaron Rowand has started this season off without taking a walk, but what many may not realize is this streak stretches back August 11th of last season. Rowand has gone 28 games where he had at least one plate appearance without taking a walk.

With a walk-less game against the Dodgers on Wednesday night, he moved past his previous best with the Giants that he set back in 2009.

This is the second longest such streak of his career. He once went 33 games with the White Sox before he took a walk. The current walk-less streak has coincided with one the worst slumps of his career (even with his hot start) over this span; he has hit a depressing .218/.228/.397.

Ladies and Gentlemen; your Giants leadoff hitter until Andres Torres returns from injury.

He still has quite a way to go catch the hacktastic greats of Giants old. Here is the top 20 such streaks from non-pitchers since 1990:

Rk		Strk Start	End	Games	AB	BB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1	Shawon Dunston	2001-05-03	2001-09-01	53	128	0	.258	.267	.469	.736
2	Shawon Dunston	2001-09-06	2002-07-02	52	110	0	.236	.241	.355	.596
3	Shawon Dunston	1996-08-02	2001-04-27	47	89	0	.236	.261	.427	.688
4	Edwards Guzman	1999-04-06	2001-07-24	46	82	0	.183	.183	.305	.488
5	Bengie Molina	2009-05-15	2009-06-23	33	123	0	.228	.234	.325	.560
6	Bengie Molina	2007-06-11	2007-07-27	32	128	0	.203	.203	.313	.516
7	Eliezer Alfonzo	2006-07-17	2006-08-24	32	115	0	.270	.283	.478	.762
8	Marquis Grissom	2003-06-20	2003-07-26	32	133	0	.308	.306	.496	.802
9	Steve Scarsone	1996-06-15	1996-08-07	32	73	0	.178	.178	.274	.452
10	Greg Litton	1990-06-19	1990-08-16	32	84	0	.250	.259	.298	.556
11	Marvin Benard	2003-04-24	2003-09-27	31	54	0	.222	.218	.296	.514
12	Bengie Molina	2009-04-07	2009-05-11	30	115	0	.287	.286	.539	.825
13	Alex Diaz	1998-03-31	1998-06-15	29	62	0	.129	.129	.161	.290
14	Aaron Rowand	2010-08-11	2011-04-13	28	78	0	.218	.228	.397	.625
15	Deivi Cruz	2005-05-25	2005-07-24	28	85	0	.235	.235	.353	.588
16	Ramon Martinez	2000-06-27	2000-09-02	28	72	0	.278	.278	.444	.722
17	John Patterson	1992-09-19	1994-04-04	28	49	0	.184	.184	.245	.429
18	Royce Clayton	1992-09-30	1993-05-01	28	111	0	.279	.277	.342	.619
19	Nate Schierholtz	2010-06-07	2010-07-11	27	45	0	.178	.174	.311	.485
20	Freddy Sanchez	2009-08-08	2010-05-26	27	106	0	.245	.241	.264	.505

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 4/14/2011.

Just marvel this list for a little while. By the way, that third streak from Dunston is a little wonky because it leaves off the other teams that he played for in between.

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