Jeter Ties Gehrig for Yankees Hit Record

By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Sep 9, 2009 9:20 PM CDT
Jeter Ties Gehrig for Yankees Hit Record
New York Yankees' Derek Jeter bunts for a base hit during the first inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, at Yankee Stadium in New York.    (Bill Kostroun)

Derek Jeter and Lou Gehrig are tied at the top. Jeter matched the New York Yankees record for hits with a seventh-inning single tonight against Tampa Bay. Jeter's third hit of the game gave him 2,721 in a Yankees uniform, tying a mark held by Gehrig for more than 70 years.

Jeter had a chance to break the record in the eighth inning, but he walked against reliever Grant Balfour. Already on their feet in anticipation, fans at Yankee Stadium let loose with a roar when Jeter's sharp grounder inside the first-base line got by a diving Chris Richard in the seventh. Jeter entered the game in an 0-for-12 slump, his longest hitless stretch this season. Gehrig's final hit came on April 29, 1939, a single against the Washington Senators. The Iron Horse had held the club record for hits since Sept. 6, 1937, when he passed Babe Ruth. (More Derek Jeter stories.)

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