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Mattingly had a record 10 home runs during this streak (Long and Griffey had eight during their streaks). Also that season, Mattingly set a major-league record by hitting six grand slams in a season (two during his July home-run streak), a record matched by Travis Hafner during the 2006 season. Mattingly's grand slams in 1987 were also the only ...
Consecutive games with a home run. 8 (3 tied) Dale Long, Pittsburgh Pirates – May 19 through May 28, 1956; Don Mattingly, New York Yankees – July 8 through July 18, 1987; Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners – July 20 through July 28, 1993; Consecutive games reaching base. 84 – Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox – July 1 through September 27, 1949
In addition, Mattingly had tied Dale Long's major league record by hitting home runs in eight consecutive games (record later tied again by Ken Griffey Jr., of Seattle in 1993), as well as stroking an extra base hit in ten consecutive games. Mattingly had a record 10 home runs during this streak (Long & Griffey had eight of them).
Brian Anderson drove in three runs, and his RBI triple in the seventh inning scored what proved to be the winning run as the Miami Marlins continued their hot start and made Don Mattingly the ...
Outfielder Joe DiMaggio had a 56-game hitting streak in the 1941 season, which remains an MLB record. Jack Chesbro holds three AL records that he set in 1904: games won, games started, and complete games. Outfielder Aaron Judge set an AL record with 62 home runs in 2022, beating the mark of 61 that fellow Yankee Roger Maris posted in 1961. [3]
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July 18 – New York Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly homers in his record-tying eighth straight game, in a 7–2 loss to the Texas Rangers. He ties the record set by Dale Long in 1956. August 11 – Mark McGwire of the Oakland Athletics breaks Al Rosen's American League rookie record by hitting his 38th home run in an 8–2 loss to the ...
Mattingly was among eight former big league players on the Contemporary Baseball Era player ballot to be reviewed and voted upon Dec. 4 at the Baseball Winter Meetings, according to BaseballHall.org.