Dan Uggla is only the
21st player in baseball history -- and only the 16th player since 1900 -- to have a hitting streak of at least 33 games.
Year Name Team Games
1 1941 Joe DiMaggio New York (AL) 56
2 1896-97 Willie Keeler Baltimore (NL) 45
3 1978 Pete Rose Cincinnati 44
4 1894 Bill Dahlen Chicago (NL) 42
5 1922 George Sisler St. Louis (AL) 41
6 1911 Ty Cobb Detroit 40
7 1987 Paul Molitor Milwaukee 39
8 2005-06 Jimmy Rollins Philadelphia (NL) 38
9 1945 Tommy Holmes Boston (NL) 37
10 1896-97 Gene DeMontreville Washington (NL) 36
11 1895 Fred Clarke Louisville (NL) 35
11 1917 Ty Cobb Detroit 35
11 2002 Luis Castillo Florida 35
11 2006 Chase Utley Philadelphia (NL) 35
11 1925 George Sisler St. Louis (AL) 35
16 1938 George McQuinn St. Louis (AL) 34
16 1949 Dom DiMaggio Boston (AL) 34
16 1987 Benito Santiago San Diego 34
19 1893 George Davis New York (NL) 33
19 1907 Hal Chase New York (AL) 33
19 1922 Rogers Hornsby St. Louis (NL) 33
19 1933 Heinie Manush Washington 33
19 2011 Dan Uggla Atlanta 33
Uggla has raised his batting average from .173 (!) to .232 during the streak.
GMS AVG OBP SLG OPS
March 31 - July 4 86 .173 .241 .327 .568
July 5 - August 13 33 .377 .438 .762 1.200
Joe Posnanski, "
Why Hitting Streaks Matter (Sort Of)":
Tom Tango unveiled a fascinating tidbit the other day -- Dan Uggla actually hit about the same over a 40-game stretch last July and August as he has been hitting during this hitting streak.
During the hitting streak: .355/.409/.685
40-game stretch last year: .354/.440/.660
Tom's point -- and it's fair -- is nobody cared about Uggla's 40-game stretch last year. But this year, because he has spread out his hits so that he's had at least one every game, it might be the most talked about story in the game.
And I understand his frustration. There is no intrinsic value in a hit streak. ... Tommy Agee [had] a 20-game hitting streak where he hit .288. There's no reason I know to believe that 10 hits spread out evenly over 10 games is worth any more than 10 hits spread out any other way over 10 games. ...
One more thought: There's no way, of course, that Dan Uggla will hit in 56 straight games. We know that. ... If you put together the least likely every day players to break DiMaggio's record, he would be in the photograph. ...
But what if he did do it? What if the impossible happened? What if after all the books, all the odes, all the mathematical formulas, all the theories about DiMaggio's streak being the most unbreakable feat in sports ... what if after all that the streak was not only broken, but broken by DAN UGGLA.
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That wouldn't be pretty.
Faces of Dan Uggla
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To answer your question: shadenfreude.
As a bit of a conspiracy theorist, I would say the Italian-American community would never allow this streak to be broken.
Case-in-point: Garrett Wittels
7 1987 Paul Molitor Milwaukee
No "Milwaukee (AL)" ? ;)
Good point.
I just copied it from MLB.
Yeah, after making the comment I clicked through and saw that it was the same on the MLB.com article.
Plugs.
re: AL/NL specification: I don't know where they're going with this at all! You could look at the Milwaukee '87 thing and say, "okay, they only specify if it was a year when that city had teams in both leagues. But then they go and specify for Philly in the 2000s. But then they've got an unspecified Washington, too.
Freddy Garcia - lol.
From Tim's link: The Rays are travelling to Boston by train!
Uggla's 0 for 2 with a sacrifice fly. Cubs just tied it at 4 -- maybe he'll get two more chances at a hit.
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