Major League Baseball · Est. record 1941

DiMaggio Watch

Tracking the longest active hitting streaks in baseball — and the chase toward Joe DiMaggio's 56.

56

The record

From May 15 to July 16, 1941, Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees got a hit in 56 consecutive games — the longest hitting streak in modern Major League history. No one has come within a dozen games of it in over eight decades.

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