<P> In baseball, a hitting streak is the number of consecutive official games in which a player appears and gets at least one base hit . According to the Official Baseball Rules, such a streak is not necessarliy ended when a player has at least 1 plate appearance and no hits . A streak shall not be terminated if all official plate appearances result in a base on balls, hit by pitch, defensive interference or a sacrifice bunt . The streak shall terminate if the player has a sacrifice fly and no hit . </P> <P> Joe DiMaggio holds the Major League Baseball record with a streak of 56 consecutive games in 1941 which began on May 15 and ended July 17 . DiMaggio hit . 408 during his streak (91 - for - 223), with 15 home runs and 55 runs batted in . </P> <P> There have been 55 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), 2006 (Chase Utley and Willy Taveras), and 2011 (Andre Ethier and Dan Uggla). 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). </P>

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