Brandon Watson streak ends at 43

Full Name: Brandon Eric Watson
Born: 09/30/1981
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 170
Bats: L
Throws: R

06/18/2007 10:39 PM ET
Watson's hitting streak ends at 43 games
Call it the ghost of Rochester if you will, but Brandon Watson's International League-record 43-game hitting streak ended Monday in the same place Jack Lelivelt set the previous record in 1912.
Watson entered the 40 or more hitting streak club on June 14 when he tied Frosty Kennedy who hit in 40 straight games in 1953. He becomes only the 20Th player to join the 40 or more list in Organized Baseball history.

Hitting streak
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In baseball, a hitting streak refers to the consecutive number of official games in which a player gets at least one base hit. Games in which a player does not have any official at bats due to walks, or sacrifice bunts, or being hit by a pitch, are ignored (neither break the streak nor add to the streak). However, if a player has a sacrifice fly, then the game is not ignored, and he must get a hit or his streak is over. [1]

Joe DiMaggio claimed the major league record of the longest hitting streak with 56 consecutive games with a hit in 1941. Joltin' Joe got his first hit of the streak on May 15, 1941 against the White Sox, going 1 for 4. He would get a hit in every single game the Yankees played for two months before going 0 for 3 in a game against Cleveland on July 17. DiMaggio hit .408 during his streak (91 for 223), with 15 home runs and 55 RBI.[2]

Major League Baseball records
There have been 46 occurrences in Major League Baseball where a player had a hitting streak of at least 30 games. Multiple streaks in the same season have occurred in 1922 (George Sisler and Rogers Hornsby), 1987 (Paul Molitor and Benito Santiago), 1997 (Nomar Garciaparra and Sandy Alomar, Jr.), 1999 (Vladimir Guerrero and Luis Gonzalez), and 2006 (Chase Utley and Willy Taveras). In addition, 1924 included one whole streak (Sam Rice) and the beginning of another (George Sisler). A similar event occurred in 2006 with two whole streaks (Utley and Taveras) and the end of another (Jimmy Rollins).

Major League
Rank Player Team Games Year(s)
1 Joe DiMaggio New York Yankees 56 1941
2 Willie Keeler Baltimore Orioles 45(44) 1896-97
3 Pete Rose Cincinnati Reds 44 1978
4 Bill Dahlen Chicago Colts 42 1894
5 George Sisler St. Louis Browns 41 1922
6 Ty Cobb Detroit Tigers 40 1911

Minor League Baseball record
The longest streaks in the history of Minor League Baseball
Rank Player League Games Year(s)
1 Joe Wilhoit Western League 69 1919
2 Joe DiMaggio Pacific Coast League 61 1933
3 Roman Mejias Big State League 55 1954
4 Otto Pahlman Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League 50 1922
5 Jack Ness Pacific Coast League 49 1915
Harry Chozen Southern League 49 1945
7 Johnny Bates Southern League 46 1925
8 Brandon Watson International League 43 2007
Eddie Marshall American Association 43 1935
Orlando Moreno Longhorn League 43 1947
Howie Bedell American Association 43 1961
12 Herbert Chapman Southeastern League 42 1950
Jack Lelivelt International League 42 1912
14 Frosty Kennedy West Texas-New Mexico League 40 1953

DiMaggio set the Minor League record as a member of the San Francisco Seals. Unrecognized by Minor League Baseball is the 69 game hitting streak by Joe Wilhoit in 1919. Wilhoit was in the independent Western League at the time and his record is considered the all-time Professional Baseball record.