Check out this Baseball Reference post passed along from the Inquirer's Matt Gelb.
If Phillies do not walk tonight, it will mark longest streak in modern baseball history, according to @baseball_ref bit.ly/Z56vDf
— Matt Gelb (@magelb) April 19, 2013
Longest Streak with BB=0 From 1916 to 2013: Results – Baseball-Reference.com
The 1919 Phillies did not walk in seven straight games; "modern baseball history", Gelb notes usually is consider to have begun around 1919, the end of the dead ball era.
Without baserunners, one does not have a difficult time understanding why the Phillies cannot score any runs.
