Julio Rodriguez stayed red-hot Saturday night against the Astros, going 4-for-6 to give him a record 17 hits in a four-game stretch.
Rodriguez, with a single to left field in the seventh inning, broke a major league record set in 1925 by Milt Stock of the Brooklyn Robins. He finished 4-for-6, giving him his fourth consecutive four-plus-hit game.
"Honestly, I knew when they put it on the scoreboard that I had set a record for a four-game span," Rodriguez said of the record."Before that, I didn't know."The four straight four-hit games tied Rodriguez with Stock for the longest such streak, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. He is 17-for-21 during the four-game stretch, improving his season batting average from .256 to .278.
"Julio is just smoking hot right now and it is fun to watch," Mariners manager Scott Servais said."Every time up there he expects to get a hit, we expect to watch him get a hit. ... Tonight obviously our offense was on it. We've seen Framber Valdez a lot, had really good at-bats tonight early on putting pressure on him."
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