The Amazing Johan Santana (I'm not sure of the source of this info or if it's exactly correct. I got it from one of my, um, "research" sources).

"In case you haven't been paying attention, we have a new dominator on our hands. He's Twins left-hander Johan Santana. And his recent stretch of sheer unhittability includes all of these feats:

Santana has ripped off 10 straight starts of four hits or fewer and no more than two earned runs (in 6 IP-plus). And no other pitcher in the expansion era (1961-present) has had a streak that long of starts like that. The previous longest streaks, according to the Elias Sports Bureau:

1989 Mike Moore, A's, 8
2002 Andy Benes, Cardinals 7
1994 David West, Phillies 7
1973 Bill Parsons, Brewers 7

Santana just ran off another streak of seven straight games with nine strikeouts or more. Last pitcher to do that: Randy Johnson, in 2001. Even Nolan Ryan only had one streak like that in 26 years (11 in a row, May-July, 1977).

That stretch by Santana also included five straight double-figure strikeout games. That's not unprecedented, but only four other pitchers in the last 20 years have done it.

Randy Johnson (seven times)
Pedro Martinez (six times)
Curt Schilling (five times)
Nolan Ryan (once)

Other amazing Santana feats:

* He made six starts in July -- and gave up a total of 14 hits.
* The poor guys who had to hit against him batted .095 in July.
* Going into his start Saturday, he'd given up three hits or fewer in seven straight starts.
* In 77 innings since June 15, he has almost four times as many strikeouts (102) as he has allowed hits (27)."