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Career Notes 1996 Had an 11-game hitting streak from Apr. 21-May 3 ... Tallied a career-high five hits on June 1 vs. Texas ... Tied Rod Carew's club record by reaching base 11 consecutive times from May 31-June 2 ... Named the AL Player of the Week for July 1-7, hitting .536 with four doubles, two triples and three home runs ... Selected to his third All-Star team ... had a 12-game hitting streak from June 26-July11, batting .490 with six doubles, four triples, four home runs and 13 RBI in that span ... Set a club record with 140 runs scored on the season ... Had his 1000th career hit on Sept. 16 ... Ended season with a 12-game hitting streak. 1995 American League Player of the Week, going 12-22 (.545) with six runs, three doubles, two homers and five RBI, August 28-September 3 ... Led league in multi-hit games (56), was second in batting, tied for second in caught stealing (18), was third in hits, fourth in stolen bases, fifth in triples, sixth in on-base percentage (.424), tied for sixth in doubles and hit-by-pitch (10) and was eighth in runs ... Led club in batting, runs, hits, triples, walks, stolen bases and tied Kirby Puckett for lead in at-bats. 1994 Set club record with 22 consecutive steals ... Led the majors in doubles with 45 ... Had career-highs in homers (5), average (.312), and stolen bases (35) ... Appeared in second All-Star Game ... Had 85-game errorless streak (major league record in 89) from Sept. 22,1993-July 2, 1994. 1993 Led the Twins in stolen bases for the third straight year and tied for the team lead in triples, sacrifice flies (five) and hit-by-pitches (9) ... Opened the season with a 37-game errorless streak at second base ... Put together a 17-game hitting streak July 29-Aug. 18 ... Had four games with two stolen bases ... Endured 23 straight hitless at-bats in April and 22 in September. 1992 Improved on his `91 Rookie of the Year season ... Went 42 games without an error, June 9-July 27 ... Was successful on 17 of his first 18 stolen base attempts ... Had two hits and scored two runs in a 10-run Minnesota fourth inning at Oakland June 28 ... Was selected to the All-Star Team for the first time ... Became the first Twin to reach 30 steals in a season since Rod Carew and Larry Hisle did so in 1976 ... Became the first Twin besides Kirby Puckett to score 100 runs in a season since Carew and Lyman Bostock in 1977 ... Committed only six errors all season, compiled a fielding percentage of .992, and finished second in the Gold Glove Award voting (behind Toronto's Roberto Alomar) ... Ranked fourth in the league in runs and ninth in hits. 1991 Made a major contribution to Minnesota's World Championship in his first season and earned AL Rookie of the Year honors ... Made his major league debut April 9 at Oakland ... Singled off A's hurler Bob Welch April 10 for his first big league hit ... Had four hits May 12 at Detroit ... Hit his first big league homer July 31, off Baltimore's Mike Mussina ... Put together a 20-game hitting streak Sept. 2-25, the third-longest streak in the AL all year ... Committed 18 errors ... Had the best stolen base success rate in the league (83 percent) ...Set a record for most hits by a rookie in the AL Championship Series (7) and in the post-season (15) ... Stole two bases in ALCS Game 1 ... Hit safely in six of the seven World Series games, including a 3-for-3 performance in Game 1.
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