 One of the things that the rulebook defines that isn't related to a specific game or game situation Is that of consecutive hitting streaks consecutive game hitting streaks and consecutive game playing streaks? And so this is Roll Roll 10 23 so Let's take a look at what all these mean you probably hear about these at some point during the season So consecutive hitting streak would just be for a player to come up and have hits in as many at bats and a row As they can get obviously What the the rules state here is that there are some Situations in which a player does not have to get a hit in order for his hitting streak to continue Which might sound confusing at first because it kind of does defeat the purpose of a consecutive hitting streak, but if you recall there are certain things that count as plate appearances that do not count as an at bat things like walks being hit by a pitch Advancing to base because of obstruction defensive interference and a sacrifice of bunt All those things they count as plate appearances, but they do not count as at bats And so the rules say that in this situation if a player does get on base because of one of these things that Then their consecutive hitting streak does not end And it makes sense because if if a player is hit by a pitch or a player is walked It's really not his fault. He's done nothing wrong So what he should not be punished the rules say what would end the streak Is if a player were to come up and would hit a sacrifice fly? So the flat sack fly does end the streak Even though it does not count as a time at bat it still would would end the streak and and Obviously as would anything other than these things listed So if you ground out you fly out strike out this would obviously all end the Consecutive hitting streak So that's that's a hit every at bat, but what about a hit every game and so Basically the to Maintain your your hitting streak you have to have one Played appearance in that game. So you have to or one at bat in that game So you have to have actually played in the game, but if you have an off-day, maybe your coach says You can have the day off your consecutive game hitting streak does not end Just because you do not play that day So so it's basically put on pause until the next day. You actually have to play in the game Have one plate appearance in order for it to count and and actually these same things here These all apply down here as well. So if you do get into the game Whether it's it's one at bat or it's five at bats and something in the top row here Occurs maybe you walk five times In that game your consecutive game hitting streak does not end because it the rules are essentially saying it wasn't your fault So we're not going to punish you your streak will continue It will still be alive there the next day whenever you come back Obviously things That would not apply in the consecutive game playing streak So you you do have to play in it the game in every team game To maintain your consecutive game playing streak But how much do you have to play? So the rules say that in this situation you do have to You have to play You have to play either one half inning One half inning in the field or on defense or complete one at bat, so you have to and We'll get get into more specific about that about in a moment, but the the one thing that does not qualify Is if you pinch run So if you pinch run That's not enough. Basically. It's does not qualify you as playing have playing in that game You need to play at least one half inning or you need to complete in a bat And so as you need to complete and the at bat, but if getting on base or by getting out So if you were to get up and maybe Hit a foul ball that hits you On the foot and you break your foot and you have to leave the game You did not complete your a bat and therefore Your streak would end because if at least if you had to leave the game then your streak would end because you did Not complete your a bat the only Exception to this is that if you are ejected from the game before You can either complete your half inning in the field or complete your a bat then that does not cancel the streak the streak does continue so Being ejected will keep the streak intact although it's kind of odd that being injured is not so So these these are the things that make you qualify for having played in that game Pinch running does not and and you won't hear too often people talk about consecutive hitting streaks, but but these second two are more popular and so of course The the Record for consecutive games in a row where a player got a hit was 56 games by Joe DiMaggio and So he had 56 games in a row where he he had a hit And then as far as consecutive games played in this was Coworkin Jr. Who he played in 2632 games in a row I'm lasting Very long time from 1982 he played every game from the Baltimore Orioles And his streak finally ended in 1998 so Those were both two two records that you hear a lot about in baseball and that are Both considered highly unlikely to ever be be broken again