SF Giants' Lee Jung-hoo extends MLB-best hitting streak to 16 games with four-hit effort

The Korea Times

SF Giants' Lee Jung-hoo extends MLB-best hitting streak to 16 games with four-hit effort

It was just another day at the office for Lee Jung-hoo, as he collected four knocks to extend his hitting streak to 16 games. The Korean outfielder for the San Francisco Giants went 4-for-5 and scored twice, though the Giants blew a late lead and lost to the Washington Nationals 4-3 at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Monday (local time). Lee's 16-game run is the longest active hitting streak in Major League Baseball (MLB). This was the fifth game this season in which Lee had at least four hits, and four of those games have come during the ongoing streak. Lee pushed his batting average from .323 to .333, the second-best mark in MLB. Lee is hitting .508 (32-for-63) during his streak. Lee lined out to left fielder Daylen Lile in the bottom of the first against Richard Lovelady. Then facing new pitcher Miles Mikolas in the fourth, Lee singled to right field to keep his streak going. With another pitcher, Mitchell Parker, on the hill in the sixth, Lee hit a single to center field and later scored on a Matt Chapman single to tie the game at 1-1. Leading off the bottom of the eighth, Lee hit a dri

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