Most rookies come to the World Series hoping for one good swing. Cooper Pratt has turned it into a full-on streak.
The 22-year-old Brewers infielder kept rolling Wednesday night at Tropicana Field, lining a hit in his sixth straight World Series plate appearance during Game 5. The single kicked off a run-scoring rally and also put him in the record book as the first rookie ever to do it.
Pratt’s run of production started in Game 4, when he doubled home a run in the fourth inning. He followed that with a single in the sixth, another single in the ninth and a dramatic go-ahead homer in the 12th.
Even after the Brewers lost that game on a walk-off, Pratt picked up right where he left off the next day, delivering an RBI single in the second inning before adding the record-setting single in the fifth. That hit moved him past Brian Doyle of the Yankees, who had a hit in five straight World Series plate appearances as a rookie in 1978.
Pratt also joined rare company overall. David Ortiz of the Red Sox was the last player of any kind to reach six straight World Series plate appearances with a hit, doing it in 2013.
Billy Hatcher owns the all-time mark with seven in a row, set in 1990. Pratt now sits alongside Ortiz, Thurman Munson, Norm Cash and Goose Goslin as the only players to string together six straight hits in World Series trips to the plate.
By the end of the night, Pratt was 8-for-18 in World Series play, with three extra-base hits among those knocks.
“This kid just continues to amaze you,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said before Game 5. “As a young player that just got into the league and quite a bit of pressure on him in terms of a young player who already signed a long-term contract … just to see the way he's become a student of the game and willing to be open to growth, yeah, it’s pretty special.”
Heading into the season, Pratt ranked as the Brewers’ No. 4 prospect. Last year, he hit .238 in 120 games for Double-A Biloxi. The Brewers still bet big on him, signing him to an eight-year, $50.75 million contract before his Major League debut.
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