MLB HITTING STREAKS

MLB Players With a Hit in 30-or-more Consecutive Games | Baseball Almanac

Hitting streaks are covered in Rule 10.24 of the Major League Baseball Official Rule Book which states the following guidelines for cumulative performance records (specifically those dealing with batting streaks):

A consecutive hitting streak shall not be terminated if the plate appearance results in a base on balls, hit batsman, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt. A sacrifice fly shall terminate the streak.

Consecutive Game Hitting Streaks: A consecutive game hitting streak shall not be terminated if all the player's plate appearances (one or more) result in a base on balls, hit batsman, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt. The streak shall terminate if the player has a sacrifice fly and no hit. The player's individual consecutive game hitting streak shall be determined by the consecutive games in which the player appears and is not determined by his club's games.

Baseball Almanac has researched a list of EVERY Major League Baseball player who has had at least one hit in a minimum of thirty games. Ties are broken down in chronological order, to honor those who came before them.

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"Presented to Joe DiMaggio by his fellow players on the New York Yankees to express their admiration for his consecutive-game hitting record, 1941." - Actual Inscription on a Cigar Humidor Presented to Joe DiMaggio on August 29, 1941 (Source: Sotheby's Auction Catalog, 2003)

Hitting Streaks of 30+ Games in Major League Baseball

Baseball Players With A Hit in 30-or-more Consecutive Games | Streak Records

1. 1941 Joe DiMaggio (ALRecord) New York AL 56 Games
2. 1896-1897 Willie Keeler (NL Record) Baltimore NL 45 Games
3. 1978 Pete Rose Cincinnati NL 44 Games
4. 1894 Bill Dahlen Chicago NL 42 Games
5. 1922 George Sisler St. Louis AL 41 Games
6. 1911 Ty Cobb Detroit AL 40 Games
7. 1987 Paul Molitor Milwaukee AL 39 Games
8. 2005-2006 Jimmy Rollins Philadelphia NL 38 Games
9. 1945 Tommy Holmes Boston NL 37 Games
10. 1896-1897 Gene DeMontreville Washington NL 36 Games
11. 1895 Fred Clarke Louisville NL 35 Games
1917 Ty Cobb Detroit AL 35 Games
1924-1925 George Sisler St. Louis AL 35 Games
2002 Luis Castillo Florida NL 35 Games
2006 Chase Utley Philadelphia NL 35 Games
16. 1938 George McQuinn St. Louis AL 34 Games
1949 Dom DiMaggio Boston AL 34 Games
1987 Benito Santiago San Diego NL 34 Games
19. 1893 George Davis New York NL 33 Games
1907 Hal Chase New York AL 33 Games
1922 Rogers Hornsby St. Louis NL 33 Games
1933 Heinie Manush Washington AL 33 Games
2011 Dan Uggla Atlanta NL 33 Games
23. 1922-1923 Harry Heilmann Detroit AL 32 Games
1996-1997 Hal Morris Cincinnati NL 32 Games
25. 1885-1886 Jimmy Wolf Louisville AA 31 Games
1899 Ed Delahanty Philadelphia NL 31 Games
1906 Nap Lajoie Cleveland AL 31 Games
1924 Sam Rice Washington AL 31 Games
1965-1966 Vada Pinson Cincinnati NL 31 Games
1969 Willie Davis Los Angeles NL 31 Games
1970 Rico Carty Atlanta NL 31 Games
1975-1976 Ron LeFlore Detroit AL 31 Games
1980 Ken Landreaux Minnesota AL 31 Games
1999 Vladimir Guerrero Montreal NL 31 Games
2018-2019 Whit Merrifield Kansas City AL 31 Games
36. 1876 Cal McVey Chicago NL 30 Games
1895-1896 Dusty Miller Cincinnati NL 30 Games
1898 Elmer Smith Cincinnati NL 30 Games
1912 Tris Speaker Boston AL 30 Games
1922-1923 Charlie Grimm Pittsburgh NL 30 Games
1927-1928 Lance Richbourg Boston NL 30 Games
1929-1930 Sam Rice Washington AL 30 Games
1934 Goose Goslin Detroit AL 30 Games
1950 Stan Musial St. Louis NL 30 Games
1980 George Brett Kansas City AL 30 Games
1989 Jerome Walton Chicago NL 30 Games
1997 Sandy Alomar, Jr. Cleveland AL 30 Games
1997 Nomar Garciaparra Boston AL 30 Games
1998 Eric Davis Baltimore AL 30 Games
1999 Luis Gonzalez Arizona NL 30 Games
2003 Albert Pujols St. Louis NL 30 Games
2006 Willy Taveras Houston NL 30 Games
2007 Moises Alou New York NL 30 Games
2009 Ryan Zimmerman Washington NL 30 Games
2011 Andre Ethier Los Angeles NL 30 Games
2016 Freddie Freeman Atlanta NL 30 Games
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Did you know that during the first season (1988) of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in an episode titled The Big Goodbye, Joe DiMaggio's streak (56 Games) was broken by a shortstop named Buck Bokai of the London Kings in the year 2026?

Discuss these historical hitting streaks, current hitting streaks, rookie hitting streaks, and other impressive streaks on Baseball Fever today. Worth discussing is this October 2, 2005, press release statement from Major League Baseball in respect to Jimmy Rollins thirty-six game hitting streak (#8) and the removal of Billy Hamilton's thirty-six-game hitting streak in 1894:

Rollins Hit Streak Reaches 36

The streak will remain active for next season, and Rollins will need a hit in 21 more games to pass Joe DiMaggio's 65-year-old record. The record-setting game would come next April, pending no rainouts and no games sat out.

If Rollins does it, he would be recognized as the all-time leader, but not as the single-season leader, unless he kept it going.

Source: MLB.com (Ken Mandel, 10/02/2005).

Phillies hitting streaks history

Outfielder Billy Hamilton's 36-game hitting streak (1894): the Phillies learned this morning from Elias Sports Bureau that this record was eliminated a few years ago when researchers uncovered an 0-for-3 for Hamilton in a game that was protested. Somehow this game was omitted when compiling the hitting streak.

Ed Delahanty's 31-game hitting streak in 1899 is the longest in Phillies history, July 15 through August 18, 2nd game; 53 for 128, a .411 average.

Chuck Klein is next with two 26-game hitting streaks in 1930: May 18, 2nd game through June 17; 53 for 109, a .486 average. July 12, 1st game through August 3, 1st game; 49 for 113, a .434 average.

Klein also had a 14-game hitting streak stopped on July 11, just before starting his second 26-game streak. Over 73 games between May 18, 2nd game, and August 3, 1st game, he hit safely in 70 games. He was hitless June 20, June 26, 1st game, and July 11.

**As a point of reference, walks were included in official stats when it came to compiling hitting streaks in 1887. This was the only year in which walks were included.

Source: MLB.com (09/21/2005).

When Joe DiMaggio played for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League he had a sixty-one game hitting streak with a total of one-hundred four hits — five games longer than his Major League record (#1)!