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Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941 is the longest in Major League Baseball history. In baseball , a hitting streak is the number of consecutive official games in which a player appears and gets at least one base hit .
Consecutive no-hit games. 2 – Johnny Vander Meer, Cincinnati Reds – June 11 and 15, 1938; Consecutive quality starts (six or more innings and three or fewer earned runs) (since 1920) 26 – Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals – September 12, 1967 – July 30, 1968; 26 - Jacob deGrom, New York Mets - May 18, 2018 - April 3, 2019
The longest hitting streak in MLB from 1946 to 1977 was accomplished by DiMaggio's brother Dom, who had a 34-game run in 1949; no other player exceeded 31 games. [5] In 1978, Pete Rose made a sustained challenge for the record, with base hits in 44 straight contests to tie Keeler's single-season mark in 1897. That is the longest streak since ...
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). The MLB portion of the streak extended from ...
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 ...
There have been only six 40-game hitting streaks, and only Pete Rose's 44 in 1978 since DiMaggio's. [90] [91] Since 1900, no player other than DiMaggio has ever hit safely in even 55 of 56 games, and no active players (as of 2019) have their two longest career hit streaks even add up to 56 games. [27] [92]
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. extending the longest active hitting streak in the majors to 15 games with a homer, double and two RBIs as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-3 Monday night.