{"id":399894,"date":"2026-01-08T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399894\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:31:12","slug":"most-consecutive-games-played-in-mlb-nfl-nba-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399894\/","title":{"rendered":"Most consecutive games played in MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some athletes, there&#8217;s no such thing as a day off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> legend Cal Ripken Jr. had perfect attendance during a 17-season stretch of his 21-year career, amounting to 2,632 games played without missing one.<\/p>\n<p>How does that record apply to major sports leagues in the U.S.? Check out leaders in consecutive games played across the MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL below:<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>*Active<\/p>\n<p>MLB<\/p>\n<p>Cal Ripken Jr., 2,632<\/p>\n<p>Lou Gehrig, 2,130<\/p>\n<p>Everett Scott, 1,307<\/p>\n<p>Steve Garvey, 1,207<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Tejada, 1,152<\/p>\n<p>NFL<\/p>\n<p>NBA<\/p>\n<p>A.C. Green, 1,192<\/p>\n<p>Randy Smith, 906<\/p>\n<p>Johnny &#8220;Red&#8221; Kerr, 844<\/p>\n<p>Michael Cage, 736<\/p>\n<p>Dolph Schayes, 706<\/p>\n<p>NHL<\/p>\n<p>Phil Kessel, 1,064<\/p>\n<p>Keith Yandle, 989<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/2300\/brent-burns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Burns<\/a>*, 967<\/p>\n<p>Doug Jarvis, 964<\/p>\n<p>Garry Unger, 914<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN homepage<\/a> for the latest news, features and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For some athletes, there&#8217;s no such thing as a day off. Baltimore Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr. had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-399894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}