Damon is the hottest hitter in baseball right now. Following up on yesterday's post (including very helpful comments by reader leatherman) here are all the times since 1954 that a player has had 10 straight games with at least one extra-base hit and one run scored:

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 Chipper Jones      2006-07-01  2006-07-16    10     39   14   22   5   1   6   18    2    7    0   0  .564  .630 1.205 1.835 ATL                                         
 Bobby Abreu        2005-05-08  2005-05-18    10     34   11   19   3   0   9   18    6    9    1   0  .559  .636 1.441 2.077 PHI                                         
 Ken Griffey        1993-07-19  1993-07-29    10     43   15   17   2   0   8   14    7    2    1   1  .395  .422 1.000 1.422 SEA                                         
 Don Mattingly      1987-07-07  1987-07-19    10     46   14   22   4   0  10   22    2    2    0   0  .478  .500 1.217 1.717 NYY                                         

(Damon is on this list too, but for some reason it appears the database hasn't gotten its daily update yet...)

The Yankees play the Twins at the New Stadium tonight. It will be interesting to see if Damon can break this post-1954 record.

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