Arceneaux homers in 6 straight

Devin Arceneaux was having a slow start by his own lofty standards, but has now hit 7 homers in his past 6 games to give him 20 on the season.  With homers in 6 straight games he has set a new OOTP record. Previously 7 players had homered in 5 straight.

The major league record is 8, set by Dale Long and tied by Don Mattingly and Ken Griffey Jr.  Arceneaux, a proponent of the ‘strum’ theory of hitting once used by Lewis Solo Jr. and Shockwave, claims that Griffey’s swing also incorporated the strum.

Records are not readily available for the longest streak in Microleague or APBA, but it is believed that noone in our league has homered in 8 straight games.  Most Microleague records of this sort are lost to history, but we can confirm that Conan never homered in more than 4 straight games in 1994-95, when he hit 127 homers in back to back seasons.  His son Conn was one of those who homered in 5 straight, accomplishing the feat last season.

From the seasons accessible during the APBA era, 4 players homered in 6 straight games.  They are Ryan Ballard (2006), Richie Jefferson and Joey Renseller (2008), and Elvis Lambo (2013).