With three hits in Game 7 of the World Series on Saturday night, Toronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement set a major league record with 30 hits in one post-season.<\/p>\n
Clement broke the mark previously held by Randy Arozarena, who had 29 hits as a rookie with the Tampa Bay Rays during the 2020 playoffs.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay played 20 games in four playoff rounds that year following a pandemic-shortened regular season. Toronto played 18 games in three playoff rounds this season.<\/p>\n
Both teams lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.<\/p>\n
Clement singled in the second inning of Game 7, singled and scored in the sixth and broke the post-season record with a leadoff double in the eighth that chased Dodgers reliever Emmet Sheehan.<\/p>\n
Clement also extended his hitting streak to 13 games, a Blue Jays pos-season record. Toronto catcher Pat Borders had a 12-game hitting streak in 1992, when he was the World Series MVP against Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Playing in his first post-season, Clement batted .411 (30-for-73) with one home run and nine runs batted in. He finished 3-for-5 in Game 7 of the Series, but the Blue Jays lost 5-4 in 11 innings.<\/p>\n
Clement nearly won the title for Toronto in the bottom of the ninth, but his long drive to left-centre was caught on the warning track with the bases loaded, sending the game to extra innings with the score tied 4-4.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been crying for like probably for an hour,” Clement said long after the final out. “I thought I was done with the tears.”<\/p>\n
Clement was drafted by Cleveland in 2017 but designated for assignment in September 2022. He was claimed by the Athletics later that month but released the following spring before signing a minor league deal with Toronto.<\/p>\n
He played in a career-high 157 games during the 2025 regular season, appearing at all four infield positions. He hit .277 with nine home runs and 50 RBI.<\/p>\n
Clement set career highs with 12 home runs and 51 RBI for the Blue Jays in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With three hits in Game 7 of the World Series on Saturday night, Toronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-256885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}