Bye bye, streak.

     Before this season started, if you had asked anyone which MLB player might come close to Joe Dimaggio's fifty-six game hitting streak, no one would have said "Dan Uggla."  A thirty-three game hit streak isn't actually that close, but with about forty-six games left in the season, it's probably the closest anyone is going to get for a while.  
      Let's look at Uggla's stats before the streak: he hit .202 in April, .160 in May, .179 in June and was voted Least Valuable Player by the Austin-American Statesman. During the streak, which began July 5th, he hit .442 and bumped his season average up to .345. Uggla's streak was finally broken yesterday in a 6-5 loss to the Cubs. Congratulations, Mr. Uggla, on a nice run.