Everything about Hitting Streak totally explained
In
baseball, a
hitting streak refers to the consecutive number of official games in which a player gets at least one
base hit.According to the
Official Baseball Rules, such a streak isn't ended if "all of a batter's plate appearances (one or more) in a game result in a base on balls, hit batsman, defensive interference or obstruction or a sacrifice bunt." However, if a player has a no hits and a
sacrifice fly, then streak is terminated.
Joe DiMaggio holds the
Major League Baseball record with 56 consecutive games. That streak lasted from
May 15 to
July 17,
1941. DiMaggio hit .408 during his streak (91 for 223), with 15 home runs and 55 RBIs. Under 1941 rules, if Dimaggio had only walks during a game of the streak, the streak would have been over.
Major League Baseball records
There have been 52 occurrences in
Major League Baseball where a player had a hitting streak of at least 30 games. Multiple streaks in the same season have occurred in
1922 (
George Sisler and
Rogers Hornsby),
1987 (
Paul Molitor and
Benito Santiago),
1997 (
Nomar Garciaparra and
Sandy Alomar, Jr.),
1999 (
Vladimir Guerrero and
Luis Gonzalez), and
2006 (
Chase Utley and
Willy Taveras). In addition,
1924 included one whole streak (
Sam Rice) and the beginning of another (
George Sisler). A similar event occurred in
2006 with two whole streaks (
Utley and
Taveras) and the end of another (
Jimmy Rollins).
Keeler's streak started in his final game of the 1896 season, and continued through the first 44 games of the 1897 season. Rollins ended the 2005 season with a 36-game streak and extended it through the first two games of the 2006 season. Sisler had a hit in the last game of 1924 and the first 34 games of 1925. Major League Baseball recognizes two hitting streak records: Longest hitting streak in one season, and longest hitting streak over multiple seasons (for example Rollins 2005-2006). Keeler's, Sisler's, and Rollins' streaks are listed as 44, 34, and 36 games when discussing
single-season streaks, and 45, 35, and 38 games when discussing
multiple-season streaks.
This list omits
Denny Lyons of the 1887
American Association Philadelphia Athletics, who had a 52-game hitting streak. In
1887, the major leagues adopted a new rule which counted
walks as hits, a rule which was dropped after that season. Lyons hit in 52 consecutive games that season, but his streak included two games (#22 and #44) in which his only "hits" were walks. In
1968, MLB ruled that walks in 1887 wouldn't be counted as hits, so Lyons' streak was no longer recognized, though it still appears on some lists. In 2000 Major League Baseball reversed its 1968 decision, ruling that the statistics which were recognized in each year's official records should stand, even in cases where they were later proven incorrect. Paradoxically, the ruling affects only hit
totals for the year; the batting champion for the year isn't recognized as the all-time leader despite having the highest single-season average under the ruling, and Lyons' hitting streak isn't recognized.
Minor League Baseball records
The longest streaks in the history of
Minor League Baseball and other
Professional Baseball leagues:
DiMaggio set the Minor League record as a member of the
San Francisco Seals. Unrecognized by Minor League Baseball is the 69 game hitting streak by
Joe Wilhoit in 1919. Wilhoit was in the independent
Western League at the time and his record is considered the all-time Professional Baseball record.
College Baseball records
College Softball records
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