- On June 20 , 2007 , Doug Brocail hit Miguel Tejada on the wrist with a pitch. During the game on June 21 , Tejada took an at-bat in the top half of the first inning, making an unsuccessful attempt to bunt the ball resulting in a fielder's choice. He was removed from the game for a pinch runner, officially keeping the streak alive. Tejada was diagnosed with a broken wrist and went to the disabled list, ending his streak at 1,152 games.http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070622&content_id=2042946&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlbhttp://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070622&content_id=2043519&vkey=news_bal&fext=.jsp&c_id=bal
- Hideki Matsui assembled a professional baseball consecutive games streak of 1,768 games combined, between the Japanese League Yomiuri Giants and the Major League New York Yankees , playing 518 games consecutively in the majors. Matsui's 518 games represent a record for consecutive games to start a player's big-league career. The entire combined streak stretched from August 22 , 1993 - May 10 , 2006 and was ended by a wrist injury in what would have been his 519th consecutive game. The major league portion of the streak extended from March 31 , 2003 (opening day) until May 10 , 2006 .http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=260511110 (For more on Matsui, see note below on MLB rule).
- , 1998 , the Orioles' last home game of the season. Rookie Ryan Minor played Third Base for Ripken in a 5-4 loss to the Yankees .http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/ripken/bal-sp.ripken27sep27,0,890302.story
- Lou Gehrig 's streak started as a pinch-hitter. The next day he started at first base in place of slumping Wally Pipp (contrary to legend, Pipp did not have a headachehttp://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/pipp.asp), and stayed there for fourteen years.
- On July 14 , 1934 , Gehrig, suffering from an attack of Lumbago , was listed in the Yankee lineup at Shortstop . He batted in the top of the first inning to preserve the streak, singled, and was promptly removed from the game.http://sports.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/story?page=phonyrecords-030225http://www.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20030618&content_id=381183&vkey=lou_gehrig&fext=.jsp&c_id=null
- Gehrig's streak was ended by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis , the disease that would take his life. His physical abilities rapidly declining, Gehrig told manager Joe McCarthy to take him out of the lineup on May 2 , 1939 . He never played again, dying in 1941 .
- Garvey's all-time National League record is less than half the length of Ripken's. His streak was ended when he dislocated his thumb in a home plate collision against the Atlanta Braves .http://www.historicbaseball.com/players/g/garvey_steve.html
- Gehrig, Williams, Sewell, Musial, Fox, Ashburn, and Banks are members of the Baseball Hall Of Fame . Ripken was inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame on July 29 , 2007 .
- , 2006 . That game would have been #519 and #1,769 in his MLB and MLB/Japan game streaks, but since Matsui did not play a full half inning on defense, that game is not counted in his streak. MLB and the Society For American Baseball Research http://www.sabr.org/cmsFiles/Files/DEC2006.pdf both credit Matsui with having played 518 consecutive MLB games.
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