Andre Ethier is on fire, with a game-winning hit to cap an April record 24 game hitting streak.
Will he break the magic 56 set by Joe Dimaggio? I doubt it. Others have tried – but no one has topped Joe D. since he did it in 1941.
Wee Willie Keeler (Hit ’em Where They Ain’t) is 2nd on the list with 45 consecutive games, set in 1896-97. Pete Rose is 3rd with 44, set in 1978. The fact that no one else has
come close in the past 3 decades tells you the Consecutive Game Hitting Streak may be baseball’s most enduring record. As a batter, you have to be good – and consistently good, every game. Sluggers may get hot for a week or two in hitting bombs out of the park, but to beat the streak, you have to be hot for two months in a row – with no room for failure. I’d like to see Ethier get close to 56 games, but no one will beat it.
Or as Yogi Berra once said, ” I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
