Hitting streak
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In baseball, a hitting streak refers to the consecutive number of official games in which a player gets at least one hit. Games in which the player does not have any official at-bats are ignored (neither break the streak nor add to the streak).
Major League Baseball records
The ten longest streaks in the history of the American League are:
- 56 - Joe DiMaggio (1941)
- 41 - George Sisler (1922)
- 40 - Ty Cobb (1911)
- 39 - Paul Molitor (1987)
- 35 - Ty Cobb (1917)
- 34 - George Sisler (1925)
- 34 - George McQuinn (1938)
- 34 - Dom DiMaggio (1949)
- 33 - Hal Chase (1907)
- 33 - Heinie Manush (1933)
The ten longest streaks in the history of the National League are:
- 45 - Willie Keeler (1896-97)
- 44 - Pete Rose (1978)
- 42 - Bill Dahlen (1894)
- 38 - Jimmy Rollins (2005-06)
- 37 - Tommy Holmes (1945)
- 36 - Billy Hamilton (1894)
- 35 - Fred Clarke (1895)
- 35 - Luis Castillo (2002)
- 34 - Benito Santiago (1987)
- 34 - George Davis (1893)
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 ended his streak in the 3rd game of the 2006 season. Major League Baseball recognizes two hitting streak records; Longest hitting streak in one season and longest hitting streak over multiple seasons (ex. Rollins 2005-2006)
These lists omit Denny Lyons of the 1887 American Association Philadelphia Athletics, who had a 52-game hitting streak. In 1887, major-league baseball adopted a new rule which counted walks as hits. 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 decided to recalculate the hitting statistics for 1887 using the regular standard, so Lyons' streak is no longer recognized, but it still appears on some lists.