San Francisco Giants’ Jung Hoo Lee on fire, longest hit streak in MLB

Jung Hoo Lee has been someone the San Francisco Giants can look to when they need a base hit.

Despite San Francisco‘s season of dismay, Lee in the Giants’ recent string of games, has been a ray of sunshine beaming through a dark cloud that’s casted over the baseball club.

The Giants’ 27-year-old right fielder extended Major League Baseball’s longest active hitting streak to 12 games in San Francisco’s 12-9 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday, June 4. Lee’s streak is also a career-best for the third-year major leaguer.

Lee had four hits on Thursday against the Brewers. He finished the game batting 4-of-5 with three runs scored and a RBI.

Lee now has 67 hits this season, tied for 10th in the MLB. His teammate Luis Arraez is second in the league with 76 hits. Lee also has a .322 average, .356 OBP and .803 OPS, all currently above his career averages.

“I know Ichiro (Suzuki) is a hero of his. The one thing I think Jung Hoo had going at times on video from the past and then seeing it in-person or in the season is that style of hitting I think that we’re kind of familiar with from a lot of Asian players. It’s got a little bit of rhythm, little bit of movement going forward,” Giants skipper Tony Vitello told reporters after the game. “But Ichiro, (he) was always going forward and in line with the pitcher… I just think he’s a really good hitter. Again, I boil it down to the mentality. But I do see him staying in line a lot better than he did earlier in the year.”

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