ST. LOUIS • With a walk, base hit, or bruise this evening against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cardinals left fielder Matt Holliday will reach first base and surpass Keith Hernandez while taking another step toward a standard set by … Keith Hernandez?
This on-base streak that Holliday has going to open the 2015 season, that enlightened era of OBP and OPS, doesn’t have the wide appeal of a hitting streak. And it’s no wonder. On-base streaks never have. Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak is the stuff of PIN numbers – so well known as an integer of greatness that it’s impossible to forget.