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In baseball, a hitting streak is the number of consecutive official games in which a player appears and gets at least one base hit. According to the Official Baseball Rules , such a streak is not necessarily ended when a player has at least 1 plate appearance and no hits.
The MLB portion of Matsui's streak lasted for 519 games and is an MLB record for consecutive games to start a player's career. The entire combined streak stretched from August 22, 1993, to May 10, 2006, and was ended by a wrist injury sustained during what was his 519th consecutive game (see above ).
Consecutive games with a strikeout. 37 – Aaron Judge, New York Yankees – July 8 through August 21, 2017; Consecutive games with two or more hits. 15 – Count Campau, St. Louis Browns – July 5 through July 23, 1890; Consecutive games with three or more hits. 6 (3 tied) Sam Thompson, Philadelphia Phillies – June 11 through 21, 1895
On this day in 1933, Lou Gehrig became baseball's Iron Man, breaking the record for most consecutive games played with 1,308. Ripken broke the record in 1995, and will likely hold it for decades ...
In 1940, however, the Yankees failed to top the American League (AL) for the first time in DiMaggio's career, despite his league-leading .352 batting average, [4] and a 23-game hitting streak that was the longest in MLB that season. [5] The Yankees got off to a mediocre start in 1941, and were mired in fourth place in the middle of May.
However, the third-year major leaguer compiled the longest consecutive hit streak since MLB expanded in 1961. Boston's Dustin Pedroia got hits in 11 straight at-bats in 2016, while Bernie Williams ...
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 would not 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 ...
The longest winning streak consisting only of playoff games stands at 12 consecutive wins, by the 1927, 1928 and 1932 New York Yankees (who swept the World Series all three seasons) and tied by the 1998–99 Yankees. According to Major League Baseball's policy on winning streaks, tie games do not end a team's winning streak. [1]