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Sims wins $10,000 for BTS high score
- Updated: October 7, 2016
Another year of Beat the Streak has come and gone without anyone claiming the grand prize by breaking Joe DiMaggio’s Major League-record 56-game hitting streak.
Dozens of players have compiled streaks numbering into the 40s since the contest began 16 years ago, but no one has ever reached 57 successful picks in a row — the requisite number to take the $5.6 million grand prize. In fact, no player has even hit the 50-mark in BTS history.
Nonetheless, 2016 turned out to be a historic season in BTS game play. And Terry Sims was the participant at the center of it all.
Sims, a 63-year-old resident of Arizona, is the official Beat the Streak high-score winner thanks to his 49-game streak, which came to a close in late June. Sims’ run of 49 tied Mike Karatzia’s 2007 record for the longest run in contest history and earned him a cool $10,000 for posting 2016’s best streak.
Sims was just eight picks shy of becoming the first to win the grand prize when a fluke injury brought his run to an abrupt end on June 26. His pick that day — Rockies second baseman DJ LeMahieu, who went on to capture the 2016 National League batting title with a .348 average — was 0-for-1 with two walks before exiting the game in the sixth inning with a left knee …
