Ryan Zimmerman's hit streak is now 30 games!

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Tue May-12-09 09:29 PM
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Ryan Zimmerman's hit streak is now 30 games!

More than halfway to the record...nice to have the Nats get some POSITIVE news: woohoo:

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Kingofalldems

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Tue May-12-09 09:36 PM
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1. And their best pitcher had a no-no last Friday

Edited on Tue May-12-09 09:38 PM by Kingofalldems

Ryan will probably get some well deserved pub starting tomorrow.

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flvegan

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Tue May-12-09 09:38 PM
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2. Wait...you place a Natinal chasing DiMaggio?

He's good and all, and I've given him a lot of credit...but really.

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Tue May-12-09 09:47 PM
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3. ESPN is

Edited on Tue May-12-09 09:47 PM by TZ

I saw it on baseball tonite..longest hit streak since 2000 ..:)

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Upton

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Tue May-12-09 10:02 PM
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6. Good for him

Edited on Tue May-12-09 10:03 PM by Upton

meanwhile the Nats, going into their loss tonight, are 10-20.

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cboy4

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Tue May-12-09 09:58 PM
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4. Hey, we'll trade you some of our horrible pitchers for

Zimmerman.

You'll still come out ahead!

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Tue May-12-09 10:02 PM
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5. no thanks

All full up on horrible pitchers...:rofl:

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Oeditpus Rex

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Tue May-12-09 10:05 PM
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7. It's certainly noteworthy, but...

You realize the closest anyone's come to DiMag was Pete Rose with 44 in 1978? Pete fucking Rose! Then Paul Molitor with 39 in 1987. Jimmy Rollins came closest since then with 38 across 2005 and 2006.

The longer any streak goes, the harder it is to maintain, especially when you've got like 200 pitchers trying to stop it. A lotta baseball people say DiMaggio's 56 is a record that'll never be broken. 'Course, they used to say that about Ruth's 714 and Maris' 61, too.

I'm not trying to take away anything from Zimmerman. Hell, any hitting streak more than 10 games is something to be proud of. But DiMag's is just unreachable.

BTW — the day after DiMaggio's streak ended, he started another one; I think it went 17 games, so he hit in 73 of 74 games. Un-fucking-believable.

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