{"id":351013,"date":"2025-11-02T19:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351013\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:53:10","slug":"ernie-clement-sets-record-with-30-hits-in-one-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/351013\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernie Clement sets record with 30 hits in one postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 With three hits in Game 7 of the World Series on Saturday night, Toronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement set a major league record with 30 hits in one postseason.<\/p>\n

Clement, a native of Rochester<\/a>, broke the mark previously held by Randy Arozarena, who had 29 hits as a rookie with the Tampa Bay Rays during the 2020 postseason.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay played 20 games in four playoff rounds that year following a pandemic-shortened regular season. Toronto played 18 games in three playoff rounds this season.<\/p>\n

Both teams\u00a0lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>\u00a0in the World Series.<\/p>\n

Clement singled in the second inning of Game 7, singled and scored in the sixth and broke the postseason record with a leadoff double in the eighth that chased Dodgers reliever Emmet Sheehan.<\/p>\n

Clement also extended his hitting streak to 13 games, a Blue Jays postseason record. Toronto catcher Pat Borders had a 12-game hitting streak in 1992, when he was the World Series MVP against Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Playing in his first postseason, Clement batted .411 (30 for 73) with one home run and nine RBIs. He finished 3 for 5 in Game 7 of the Series, but the Blue Jays lost 5-4 in 11 innings.<\/p>\n

Clement nearly won the title for Toronto in the bottom of the ninth, but his long drive to left-center was caught on the warning track with the bases loaded, sending the game to extra innings with the score tied at 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been crying for like probably for an hour,\u201d Clement said long after the final out. \u201cI thought I was done with the tears.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clement was drafted by Cleveland in 2017 but designated for assignment in September 2022. He was claimed by the Athletics later that month but released the following spring before signing a minor league deal with Toronto.<\/p>\n

He played in a career-high 157 games during the 2025 regular season, appearing at all four infield positions. He hit .277 with nine home runs and 50 RBIs.<\/p>\n

Clement set career highs with 12 home runs and 51 RBIs for the Blue Jays in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 With three hits in Game 7 of the World Series on Saturday night, Toronto Blue…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[30319,1578,1266,50,879,62,67,132,68,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-351013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-rochester","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115481857602634159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}