Manny Machado became the 298th player in Major League history to reach 2,000 career hits on Monday night.<\/p>\n
The Padres all-star third baseman needed two hits to get to the milestone, and did so with a first inning single followed by an infield single to lead off the fourth.<\/p>\n
After reaching first base Machado tipped his cap to a crowd that rose to its feet to celebrate the accomplishment.<\/p>\n
Machado is the first player to log their 2,000th hit in a San Diego uniform since Mike Piazza did it on July 21, 2006. Tony Gwynn did so in 1993, then famously reached 3,000 exactly six years later on August 6th, 1999.<\/p>\n
Machado didn’t waste any time beginning his pursuit of baseball’s most famous storied hitting plateau. The 32-year-old belted a solo home run in the eighth inning to reach 2,001.<\/p>\n
Of that total, 951 have come since he signed with San Diego. His hit total includes 357 homers and 384 doubles. <\/p>\n
His efforts on Monday weren’t enough to lift the Padres to a win. Arizona spoiled Yu Darvish’s first start of 2025, beating the Padres 6-3. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Machado became the 298th player in Major League history to reach 2,000 career hits on Monday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,8037,3549,1306,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-47850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-padres","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114815902990917045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47850","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=47850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}