Nate McLouth singled and scored in the sixth inning Wednesday to extend his hitting streak to 15 games.
According to the Pirates game notes and the Elias Sports Bureau, the last Pirates player to begin a season with a hitting streak this long was Al Oliver in 1972 with 18 games.
For the record, Oliver finished that season with a .312 average, 12 home runs and 89 RBI. Those are pretty tame numbers by today's standards, until you consider that Oliver made his first of seven All-Star appearances that year and finished seventh in the National League Most Valuable Player voting.
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