Kansas City Royals’ Tyler Tolbert breaks his bat on a foul ball during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Tuesday, July 7, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Adam Hunger)<\/small><\/p>\n
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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Tyler Tolbert of the Kansas City Royals tied a major league record<\/a><\/span> with hits in 12 consecutive plate appearances, reaching the mark with an infield single against the New York Mets for his fifth hit Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Tolbert matched the record set by Chicago\u2019s Johnny Kling in 1902 and equaled by Walt Dropo of the Detroit Tigers in 1952.<\/p>\n The second-year player grinned as he walked back to first base following the record-tying hit. The Citi Field scoreboard flashed a graphic noting his accomplishment.<\/p>\n Batting ninth, the right fielder hit a two-run homer in the second inning and singled in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. Tolbert\u2019s last three hits were infield hits.<\/p>\n Tolbert went 2 for 2 on Saturday night against Philadelphia before being lifted for a pinch-hitter. He then started at shortstop on Monday and went 5 for 5 with a homer, his first of the season.<\/p>\n A pinch-running and defensive specialist, Tolbert had 105 career plate appearances entering Tuesday\u2019s game. Entering Saturday, he was 7 for 35 on the season. His fifth hit Tuesday lifted his batting average to .404.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kansas City Royals’ Tyler Tolbert breaks his bat on a foul ball during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Tuesday, July 7, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo\/Adam Hunger) 2026-07-08T02:18:34Z NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Tyler Tolbert of the Kansas City Royals tied a major league record with hits in… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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