It's just hard to imagine when, given the way things have transpired lately.

C.C. Sabathia kept the Tribe's incredible string of starts going with a shutout of his hometown A's in a 2-0 victory at Progressive Field on Wednesday night. That extended the Cleveland starters' streak of consecutive scoreless innings pitched to 43 1/3, dating back to the fifth inning of Friday night's game against the Blue Jays, which was Sabathia's previous start.

Each member of the Tribe's starting five, then, has turned in a scoreless outing in succession. The Indians were trying to determine the last time that happened in the Majors. What is known, according to The Elias Sports Bureau, is that this run is the longest scoreless streak put together by a group of Indians starters since Bob Lemon, Gene Bearden, Sam Zoldak and Satchel Paige threw consecutive shutouts in 1948 -- a stretch of 47 innings.

What was impressive about this particular outing is that Sabathia (3-5) didn't even flirt with danger. Only twice did he allow a runner to reach scoring position. He held the A's to just five hits with two walks and 11 strikeouts and only seemed to improve as the outing progressed.

Sabathia didn't need much help from his offense, and he got just enough support to get by when Grady Sizemore homered off Joe Blanton to lead off the bottom of the first and Ryan Garko added a solo shot in the fourth.