Giants' Jung Hoo Lee extends hitting streak to 16 games, ties Shin-Soo Choo and Ha-Seong Kim for the best among Korean players

The Giants were back at Oracle Park today for the first game of a three-game set with the Washington Nationals. Korean outfielder Jung Hoo Lee delivered a single to right field in the bottom of the fourth, notching his 16th straight game with a hit and matching the MLB record for Korean-born players.

In the bottom of the fourth, facing Nationals reliever Miles Mikolas, Jung Hoo Lee connected on an 89-mph slider and drove it to right field for a single. That hit tied him with Shin-Soo Choo (Reds, 2013) and Ha-Seong Kim (Padres, 2023) for the longest hitting streak by a Korean player in MLB history. In the bottom of the sixth, he added another single and later scored the game's first run on a teammate's hit.

Jung Hoo Lee's consecutive-game hitting streak began on May 15 against the Dodgers. Over his last 22 games, he has recorded a hit in 21 of them. In tomorrow's game against the Nationals, he will have a chance to surpass both predecessors and stand alone as the Korean player with the longest streak.