{"id":2492810,"date":"2026-07-08T02:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2492810"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:18:25","slug":"royals-tolbert-ties-mlb-record-with-hits-in-12-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-tolbert-ties-mlb-record-with-hits-in-12-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Tolbert ties MLB record with hits in 12 straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"Article content\" id=\"article-content\">\n<p>Kansas City Royals outfielder Tyler Tolbert tied a major-league record by becoming the fifth player ever to record hits in 12 consecutive at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>His hits in 12 straight plate appearances also set an expansion-era (since 1961) record and tied the overall MLB mark.<\/p>\n<p>Tolbert etched his name in the record books with an infield single off New York Mets pitcher Matt Seelinger in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-segment--embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tyler Tolbert ties an MLB record with hits in 12 straight at-bats! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vldHYDmkdw\">pic.twitter.com\/vldHYDmkdw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2074672727395389647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The 28-year-old joined the Chicago Cubs&#8217; Johnny Kling (1902), Pinky Higgins of the Boston Red Sox (1938), the Detroit Tigers&#8217; Walt Dropo (1952), and the Minnesota Twins&#8217; Jose Miranda (2024) in the exclusive club. Of that group, only Tolbert, Kling, and Dropo recorded their 12 hits in consecutive plate appearances, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SlangsOnSports\/status\/2074673533624418334\">Sarah Langs of MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tolbert&#8217;s streak started Saturday when he went 2-for-2 against the Philadelphia Phillies before being lifted for a pinch hitter. He followed that up with a 5-for-5 performance Monday versus Philadelphia before notching another five through the first seven innings Tuesday in Flushing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thescore.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals outfielder Tyler Tolbert tied a major-league record by becoming the fifth player ever to record hits in 12 consecutive at-bats. His hits in 12 straight plate appearances also set an expansion-era (since 1961) record and tied the overall MLB mark. Tolbert etched his name in the record books with an infield single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2492811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Royals-Tolbert-ties-MLB-record-with-hits-in-12-straight.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492812,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492810\/revisions\/2492812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}