The names aren't as familiar as Willie, Mickey, and The Duke, but three other guys all did something no one else has done in major league baseball history.
And now, a new name, one that some may say is better served by his famous cousin, has joined Walt Dropo, Michael "Pinky" Higgins, and Johnny Kling,
Twins third baseman Jose Miranda singled in the fourth inning on Saturday during the team's 9-3 win over Houston for his 12th straight hit in an official at-bat, tying the longest such streak in MLB history.
Miranda came into the game with ten straight hits in as many plate appearances before he was hit by a pitch in the first inning, but he followed that up with a run-scoring single in the second before his record-tying mark in the fourth.
Like so many of his hits in this remarkable run, the record-tying single was a line drive that came off the bat at 102 mph, that found grass in right-center field, well past the glove of lunging Houston second baseman Mauricio Dubon.
The fans at Target Field gave Miranda a standing ovation as the scoreboard and public address announcer Adam Abrams informed them of the record.
Miranda, a 26-year-old infielder from Puerto Rico, whose cousin is Broadway superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda, tipped his cap and waved in acknowledgement.
“It felt great seeing the fans, obviously, showing me (support) with the standing ovation,” said Miranda. “They are proud obviously, and I’m proud of them being there, too.”
The streak finally ended in the sixth inning when Hunter Brown retired Miranda on a flyout to left field.
Twins fans gave Miranda another standing ovation in appreciation of the record.
“There’s no real words,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “You’ve just got to kind of stop talking and enjoy it. Never seen something like that go on, on a field, over the course of a few days, ever, anywhere.”
Until Saturday, Dropo was the most recent major leaguer to collect 12 hits in as many at-bats, doing it in 1952 for the 104-loss Detroit Tigers.
Hayes turned the trick in 1938 while playing for the Boston Red Sox, twenty years after the Curse of the Bambino supposedly went into effect.
Kling did it for the Chicago National League team in 1902 when the ballclub was first, albeit unofficially, referred to as the Cubs.
When Miranda made his Twins debut in 2022 he was the 22,627th player in major league history, according to Baseball Reference.
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