Longest Hitting Streaks against the Yankees 1956-2008
Posted by Raphy on April 1, 2008
Tonight, Alex Rios extended his hitting streak against the Yankees to 21 games. This ties him with Nomar Garciaparra , Paul Molitor and Harold Baines for the longest such streaks since 1956. (The Rios number has not yet been updated.)
StreakStart Streak End Games AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SO BB SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Teams -----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nomar Garciaparra 1996-09-29 1999-05-25 21 90 14 33 7 3 2 13 8 3 3 1 .367 .394 .578 .972 BOS Paul Molitor 1983-09-13 1986-04-18 21 83 17 35 8 1 1 12 12 13 5 2 .422 .495 .578 1.073 MIL Harold Baines 1984-04-30 1985-08-14 21 92 15 41 3 2 7 21 5 4 0 0 .446 .469 .750 1.219 CHW
Alexis Rios 2006-09-30 2007-09-24 20 86 22 31 6 2 3 12 11 5 4 0 .360 .394 .581 .975 TOR Albert Belle 1993-09-05 1995-08-13 19 75 23 32 8 1 9 17 13 7 2 0 .427 .470 .920 1.390 CLE Scott Bradley 1986-08-30 1989-05-29 18 70 13 29 5 0 3 14 3 2 0 0 .414 .432 .614 1.046 SEA Jim Rice 1976-06-03 1977-06-19 18 67 7 32 4 1 5 16 7 6 0 1 .478 .520 .791 1.311 BOS
UPDATE 4/2/08: Rios has done it again. He is now the leader.