Do baseball winning and losing streaks happen more often than pure luck would predict? You look at every game from the 2001 National League season and count how often teams went on streaks of each length. Then you create two artificial seasons based on chance alone. One uses a Monte Carlo simulation (a coin-flip model). The other uses calculated streak formulas. You compare the real streak counts to the artificial ones using standard deviation. The real streaks differ from the random models at both 95% and 99% confidence levels. Streaks in baseball are not purely random. Factors like pitcher rotation and playing games in a series likely play a role.