Longest Streak to start career with multi-hit games - Baseball-Reference PI

Ian Desmond has gotten off to a fine start for his career with three multi-hit games, but he'll need to be better to be the best of recent memory.

To generate this list I used the batting streak finder. I made the decision to only consider games with 2 or more AB's. This causes us to include Oliva's streak. In 1962 and 1963 he pinch hit a bunch of games, but actually had only one multi-AB game in that stretch. He then started 1964 with five multi-hit games. Salazar pinch ran in his debut and then rattled off his streak. The caveat that this is only for the retrosheet-era 1954 on applies. If you want to push the retrosheet era back earlier, volunteer here.

                   StreakStart  Streak End Games    AB    R    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI  SO   BB   SB   CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Teams
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+-----+---------
 Tony Oliva         1962-09-14  1964-04-19     6     27    6   13   3   2   1    9    3    3    0   1  .481  .533  .852 1.385 MIN

 Luis Salazar       1980-08-17  1980-08-21     5     19    3   11   0   1   0    3    4    1    0   0  .579  .600  .684 1.284 SDP 

 Josh Anderson      2007-09-14  2007-09-17     4     18    3   11   2   0   0    5    2    1    0   0  .611  .650  .722 1.372 HOU 
 Willy Taveras      2005-04-05  2005-04-09     4     15    3    9   1   0   0    1    2    1    1   0  .600  .625  .667 1.292 HOU
 Morgan Burkhart    2000-06-27  2000-06-30     4     15    3    8   1   0   0    4    1    4    0   0  .533  .632  .600 1.232 BOS
 Pete Coachman      1990-08-18  1990-08-21     4     18    1    8   1   0   0    4    4    1    0   0  .444  .474  .500  .974 CAL
 Doug Dascenzo      1988-09-02  1988-09-05     4     19    3   10   3   0   0    4    0    1    0   0  .526  .550  .684 1.234 CHC 
 Nyls Nyman         1974-09-10  1974-09-13     4     14    5    9   2   1   0    4    1    0    1   0  .643  .667  .929 1.596 CHW 
 Ken Griffey        1973-08-25  1973-08-29     4     17    3    9   2   0   0    0    1    0    1   0  .529  .529  .647 1.176 CIN   
 Rich Coggins       1972-08-29  1972-09-05     4     16    2    9   3   0   0    0    4    0    0   0  .563  .563  .750 1.313 BAL
 Tommy Helms        1965-09-01  1965-09-04     4     16    2    9   2   1   0    2    2    2    1   0  .563  .611  .813 1.424 CIN 
 Gene Baker         1954-04-13  1954-04-18     4     17    7    9   3   0   2    7    0    3    0   0  .529  .600 1.059 1.659 CHC 

 Ian Desmond        2009-09-10  2009-09-13     3     13    2    8   3   0   1    4    2    1    0   0  .615  .643 1.077 1.720 WSN 
plus many more with three

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