Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 10, 2007
Big Streak?

Pat Lackey at MLB Fanhouse wonders when a hitting streak becomes a Hitting Streak:

I suppose Alfonso Soriano can be the basis for my theory. I was oblivious to the fact that he had a 15-game hitting streak coming into this week's series with the Pirates. I knew he'd been hitting well of late, but I had no idea this hitting streak was happening. When he got a hit in Tuesday's 15-inning marathon, I was kind of surprised, but then thought, "Well, who cares about a hitting streak shorter than 15 games anyways?" Last night he homered in the first at-bat of the game and provided the Cubs with their margin of victory in their 1-0 win over the Pirates and his hitting streak is being mentioned as part of the lead story, along with the Cubs' win and oh yeah, Jason Marquis' 3-hit shutout of the Buccos. So it seems that we've gone from "who cares" to "national story" somewhere between 15 and 17 games. I will monitor the situation from here on out.

Derrek Lee holds a 16-game streak as well, so if he gets a hit today, that should make Sports Center as well. :-)


Posted by David Pinto at 08:32 AM | Games | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Lee also has a 31 game on base streak.

Posted by: shawn at May 10, 2007 09:22 AM

Torii Hunter currently has a 23 game hitting streak.

Posted by: Alexander at May 10, 2007 09:45 AM

Hunter really has a 22 game streak, he got his sole "hit" last night on what should have been an error. These streaks are meaningless if the scorers are not going to be honest.

Posted by: Steven Andrew Miller at May 10, 2007 06:07 PM
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