Earlier this year, Alfonso Soriano of the Chicago Cubs had a seven-game hitting streak in which he had exactly one hit in each game (May 31st-June 9th). I’ve taken a look at the famous hitting streaks of DiMaggio and Rose, and neither contained a similar seven-game streak of one-hit games (The Yankee Clipper came close with a six-game streak May 28th thru June 1st 1941).
Certainly, in the history of baseball, someone has achieved this dubious feat before. Anybody know the record holder for the longest consecutive-game one-hit streak?
I’ve always been curious about this. A long hit-streak is impressive, but if you’re only hitting one out of every three or four at-bats, your batting average is going to suffer.
What were DiMaggio’s and Rose’s batting averages during thier streaks?
At 31 games into his 39 gamer, Molitor’s batting average was .411 (53/129 including 6 homers, 26 RBIs, 34 runs scored). Source here. Can’t find mention of his final streak average anywhere online.