Name Games Dates
Dom DiMaggio 34 June 29 to August 7, 1949
Tris Speaker 30 1912 [May have ended July 17]
Nomar Garciaparra 30 July 26 to August 29, 1997
Johnny Damon 29 June 10 to July 17, 2005
Wade Boggs 28 June 24 to July 25, 1985
Dom DiMaggio 27 May 12 to June 7, 1951
Manny Ramirez 27 July 15 to August 12, 2006
David Ortiz 27 July 2, 2012 to May 7, 2013
Buck Freeman 26 1902
Johnny Pesky 26 August 30 to September 20, 1947
Nomar Garciaparra 26 April 27 to May 26, 2003
Jackie Bradley 26 April 24 to May 21, 2016Baseball Reference's Play Index has data back to 1913; the two older streaks came from the 2016 Red Sox Media Guide.
The Speaker streak didn't end July 18th. On that day, the Red Sox had scored 10 runs and were still batting with two outs in the bottom of the 1st when the game was stopped due to rain. Two games were played the following day, with Speaker getting a hit in game one but not game two. So the 19th must be the day. (I checked boxes for the 30-ish days before that, and though I didn't have a box for every game, there wasn't one box I saw where Speaker didn't have at least one hit. So I'm assuming this was the time of the streak, with it ending on 7/19 unless for some reason they said him not getting a hit in the suspended game on the 18th--if he didn't in fact get a hit--counted as the end of the streak.)
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This just in: before posting this I just tried Googling and came up with a post on the fenwaypark100.org site from 7/18/2012 that said "100 years ago yesterday" the streak ended. Meaning 7/17/1912. I checked the paper again and saw two linescores (no boxes) and two separate short accounts of that day's doubleheader, but no mention of the streak ending. But I gotta figure the Fenway100 people had the boxes and saw that the streak ended on 7/17.
Aren't you forgetting the Allan Wood hitting streak of about 2000 games !!! HaHa. Fancy he may start "looking" for hits now - recognition of records starts to affect your swing ? Been extraordinary though - particularly when you remember he struggled to hit a Barn Door a few months & years ago !!!
ReplyDeleteI saw that same Fenway100 comment, but made a mistake on what day they meant.
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