Most Consecutive Games Played

From BR Bullpen

A list of players with streaks greater than 700 consecutive games played in Major League Baseball and Nippon Pro Baseball.

Active streaks are in italics.

Rank Games Player Start Date End Date MLB NPB
1 2632 Cal Ripken, Jr. May 30, 1982 September 19, 1998 2632 0
2 2215 Sachio Kinugasa October 19, 1970 October 22, 1987 0 2215
3 2130 Lou Gehrig June 1, 1925 April 30, 1939 2130 0
4 1768 Hideki Matsui August 22, 1993 May 10, 2006 518 1250
5 1766 Tomoaki Kanemoto July 10, 1998 April 15, 2011 0 1766
6 1307 Everett Scott June 20, 1916 May 5, 1925 1307 0
7 1246 Tokuji Iida September 12, 1948 May 24, 1958 0 1246
8 1213 Kazuo Matsui July 22, 1995 June 23, 2004 70 1143
9 1207 Steve Garvey September 3, 1975 July 29, 1983 1207 0
10 1180 Katsumi Hirosawa October 12, 1986 October 8, 1995 0 1180
11 1152 Miguel Tejada June 2, 2000 June 21, 2007 1152 0
12 1117 Billy Williams September 22, 1963 September 2, 1970 1117 0
13 1103 Joe Sewell September 13, 1922 April 30, 1930 1103 0
14 1014 Fumio Fujimura August 30, 1946 July 31, 1954 0 1014
15 895 Stan Musial April 15, 1952 August 23, 1957 895 0
16 894 Kazuhiko Ishimine August 14, 1988 July 12, 1995 0 894
17 890 Katsuo Ohsugi September 21, 1968 August 20, 1975 0 890
18 882 Hideshi Miyake April 11, 1956 September 5, 1962 0 882
19 872 Koji Yamamoto October 22, 1976 August 28, 1983 0 872
20 833 Koji Akiyama April 6, 1985 June 16, 1991 0 833
21 829 Eddie Yost April 30, 1949 May 11, 1955 829 0
22 822 Gus Suhr September 11, 1931 June 4, 1937 822 0
23 821 Sadayuki Tokutake April 9, 1961 April 10, 1967 0 821
24 809 Shinichi Etoh April 11, 1959 April 16, 1965 0 809
25 803 Ryuzoh Yamasaki October 16, 1983 April 28, 1990 0 803
26 798 Nellie Fox August 8, 1955 September 3, 1960 798 0
27 763 Ichiro Suzuki April 9, 1994 August 24, 1999 0 763
28 745 Pete Rose September 2, 1978 August 23, 1983 745 0
29 740 Dale Murphy September 26, 1981 July 8, 1986 740 0
30 739 Norihiro Komada October 21, 1993 July 16, 1999 0 739
30 739 Shogo Akiyama September 6, 2014 Active through 2019 0 738
31 733 Kazuo Horii April 19, 1950 March 24, 1956 0 733
32 730 Richie Ashburn June 7, 1950 April 13, 1955 730 0
33 717 Ernie Banks August 28, 1956 June 22, 1961 717 0
34 717 Junichi Kashiwabara August 14, 1979 May 9, 1985 0 717
35 708 Nobuyuki Hikichi May 18, 1952 August 29, 1957 0 708

Alexander Ramos set the record in Cuba with 1,112 games while Gerardo Sánchez holds the Mexican League record at 1,415. Cheng-Hsien Chen set the Chinese Professional Baseball League mark of 665.

Further Reading[edit]

  • John Eisenberg: The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, NY, 2017. ISBN 978-0-5441-0767-0
  • Marty Friedrich: The Iron Men of Baseball, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2006.
  • Sarah Langs: "Consecutive games streaks since Ripken", mlb.com, September 6, 2020. [1]