June 14, 2026
22 games into Petey Halpin‘s career, he’s still searching for his first extra-base hit.
Excluding pitchers, that’s the 18th longest streak to begin a career in team history.
Here are the longest in the Jacobs Field Era:
The franchise record is 56 games, set by Junior Noboa during the 1984 and 1987 seasons (he spent all of 1985-86 in the minors).
In Sunday’s loss to the Twins, Brayan Rocchio went 4-4 with two run scored while batting ninth.
It was just the ninth time someone collected four hits from the nine-hole at home since Jacobs Field opened in 1994.
The others:
Rocchio and Asdrubal were the only ones to do so in a losing effort.
The last to so home or away was Tyler Naquin in Kansas City in 2019.
Brayan Rocchio hit his first career home run on Friday night against the Marlins in his 76th career game.
His 75 straight games without a home run was the 38th longest streak for a non-pitcher in team history and the fourth longest over the last 50 years. The team record is 539 games by Bill Wambsganss.
Longest homerless droughts to start a career for Cleveland over the last 50 seasons:
Amed Rosario enters 2023 with a .478 batting average when putting the ball in play since joining Cleveland.
Dating back to 1990, that’s the highest average among Cleveland hitters with at least 100 one-pitch at-bats:
Rosario, .478
Ellis Burks, .429
Russell Branyan, .423
Shin-Soo Choo, .423
Roberto Alomar, .419
Jim Thome, .408
And here’s the bottom five, among 64 qualified players:
Aaron Boone, .259
Mark Lewis, .263
Felix Fermin, .269
John McDonald, .270
Mike Aviles, .272
The MLB average over this span is .335.
Yu Chang has signed with the Red Sox, his fourth team of the season (also Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay).
He’s the 16th player to suit up for four teams in one year.
The others to do so with a stop in Cleveland: