Cabrera did win his third consecutive American League batting title and became the first right-handed hitter to win three consecutive batting titles since Rogers Hornsby in the 1920s.
Suzuki was the game's dominant hitter, with five consecutive batting titles; Matsuzaka was Japanese baseball's most intriguing new face, a heralded 18-year-old phenom right out of high school.
Ichiro, who is 27 years old, 5-foot-9 and weighs 160 pounds, plays right field, throws right and bats left, was regarded as the best player in Japan, and perhaps the best hitter in the history of Japanese baseball, where he won seven consecutive batting titles and seven Gold Glove awards and was chosen for seven consecutive all-star games.
With runners on first and second and no outs in the fourth, Alex Rodriguez grounded sharply into a double play, started niftily by shortstop Alex Gonzalez, before Robinson Cano struck out for the second consecutive at-bat.
In one game, in 1953, he fouled off a total of 20 pitches in two consecutive at bats.
On September 9, the Brewers became the third team in major league history to start a game with three straight home runs, as Rickie Weeks, J. J. Hardy, and Braun homered in consecutive at bats.
However, Hornsby still won his fourth consecutive NL batting title with a batting average of.384.
He still managed to lead the majors with a.376 batting average as he recorded his second consecutive league batting title.
Cobb had won the previous nine consecutive AL batting titles; Speaker outhit him with a.386 batting average compared to Cobb's.371.371
EXPOS 10, DEVIL RAYS 2: Jose Vidro and Vladimir Guerrero homered in consecutive at-bats for the second straight game, and Geoff Blum had four runs batted in to lead host Montreal.
