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- Updated: May 25, 2016
The Angels tallied 14 hits in their road game vs. the Rangers on Wednesday afternoon, but Mike Trout’s 0-fer stalled what had been the longest Beat the Streak run this season at 40 games.
Nathan Bowdler, who plays BTS under the username, “nathanbowdler,” selected Trout and Phillies outfielder Odubel Herrera on Wednesday in a bid to extend his streak to 42.
Herrera recorded his lone hit on the day in emphatic fashion, belting a three-run homer in the fourth inning against the Tigers at Comerica Park. But Trout ended up going 0-for-4 with a sacrifice fly in the Angels’ loss at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
That means Bowdler will need to start over in the chase for 57 consecutive correct picks — one more than Joe DiMaggio’s famed hitting streak in 1941 — and therefore the grand prize. No participant in the 15 previous seasons of BTS has reached that reward, which is now worth $5.6 million.
Bowdler, a mechanical engineer from Allen Park, Mich., had …
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