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Joe DiMaggio claimed the Major League record of the longest hitting streak with 56 consecutive games with a hit in 1941 . Joltin' Joe got his first hit of the streak on May 15, 1941 against the White Sox , going 1 for 4. He would get a hit in every single game the Yankees played for two months before going 0 for 3 in a game against Cleveland on July 17 . DiMaggio hit .408 during his streak (91 for 223), with 15 home runs and 55 RBI.http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats3.shtml MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RECORDS There have been 46 occurrences in ( George Sisler and Rogers Hornsby ), 1987 ( Paul Molitor and Benito Santiago ), 1997 ( Nomar Garciaparra and Sandy Alomar, Jr. ), 1999 ( Vladimir Guerrero and Luis Gonzalez ), and 2006 ( Chase Utley and Willy Taveras ). In addition, 1924 included one whole streak ( Sam Rice ) and the beginning of another ( George Sisler ). A similar event occurred in 2006 with two whole streaks ( Utley and Taveras ) and the end of another ( Jimmy Rollins ). Keeler's streak started in his final game of the 1896 season, and continued through the first 44 games of the 1897 season. Rollins ended the 2005 season with a 36-game streak and extended it through the first two games of the 2006 season. Sisler had a hit in the last game of 1924 and the first 34 games of 1925. Major League Baseball recognizes two hitting streak records: Longest hitting streak in one season, and longest hitting streak over multiple seasons (e.g. Rollins 2005-2006).http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2178924 Keeler's, Sisler's, and Rollins' streaks are listed as 44, 34, and 36 games when discussing ''single-season'' streaks, and 45, 35, and 38 games when discussing ''multiple-season'' streaks. This list omits , the major leagues adopted a new rule which counted Walks as hits, a rule which was dropped after that season. 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, ruling that the statistics which were recognized in each year's official records should stand, even in cases where they were later proven incorrect. Paradoxically, the ruling affects only hit ''totals'' for the year; the batting champion for the year is not recognized as the all-time leader despite having the highest single-season average under the ruling, and Lyons' hitting streak is not recognized. MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RECORDS The longest streaks in the history of Minor League Baseball and other Professional Baseball leagues: DiMaggio set the Minor League record as a member of the San Francisco Seals . Unrecognized by Minor League Baseball is the 69 game hitting streak by Joe Wilhoit in 1919. Wilhoit was in the independent Western League at the time and his record is considered the all-time Professional Baseball record.1 COLLEGE BASEBALL RECORDS COLLEGE SOFTBALL RECORDS SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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