Even on the final day of the season, two-hit Whit has no quit.
Former South Carolina baseball star Whit Merrifield extended his career-high hitting streak to 20 games in the Kansas City Royals’ last game of the 2018 season on Sunday, and in doing so, he also virtually guaranteed that he will lead all of Major League Baseball in hits for the year.
Merrifield’s ground ball single in the eighth inning against the Cleveland Indians was his 192nd hit of the season, putting him one ahead of Atlanta Braves frist baseman Freddie Freeman. No other player currently still playing is within five hits of Merrifield, and every game has reached at least the seventh inning.