It's Escobar's world

Alcides Escobar had 3 more hits last night giving him his fifth consecutive multi-hit game. He also has an eight game hitting streak. Here is some of what he's done lately:

• Last 5 Games - .632/.650/.895
• Last 8 Games - .552/.567/.724
• In June - .353/.365/.451

He's been doing a little bit of everything as he has 5 doubles and 3 stolen bases in his last 5 games, and of course he is still playing outstanding defense. For the year his on-base percentage is up to a season best .276, he's raised it a whopping 39 points during his hitting streak.

Only two shortstops in team history have had a longer multi-hit streak than Escobar's 5. Freddie Patek had 8 straight multi-hit games in 1971 (the year he finished 6th in MVP voting) and Angel Berroa had a 6 game streak in 2005.

Here are the longest streaks by shortstops this year (Tulowitzki is good, really good).

Rk		Strk Start	End	Games	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	Tm
1	Jose Reyes	2011-05-24	2011-05-29	6	14	3	2	0	2	0	2	.519	.536	.778	NYM
2	Alcides Escobar	2011-06-10	2011-06-15	5	12	5	0	0	3	0	3	.632	.650	.895	KCR
3	Emilio Bonifacio	2011-06-09	2011-06-13	5	11	4	1	0	2	7	0	.524	.565	.810	FLA
4	Troy Tulowitzki	2011-06-08	2011-06-12	5	11	2	0	2	12	3	0	.500	.542	.864	COL
5	Brendan Ryan	2011-05-22	2011-05-25	4	9	1	1	0	3	0	0	.563	.563	.750	SEA
6	Ryan Theriot	2011-05-15	2011-05-18	4	8	1	0	0	3	0	0	.500	.556	.563	STL
7	Jhonny Peralta	2011-05-06	2011-05-09	4	8	1	0	1	4	3	0	.471	.500	.706	DET
8	Troy Tulowitzki	2011-04-11	2011-04-14	4	10	1	0	4	8	1	0	.625	.700	1.438	COL
9	Jose Reyes	2011-04-03	2011-04-07	4	8	2	0	0	0	1	2	.400	.400	.500	NYM

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Generated 6/16/2011.