Editing Pete Rose (section)

====44-game hitting streak====
[[File:Jimmy Carter with Pete Rose and family - NARA - 181552 (cropped).tif|thumb|upright=0.75|Rose in 1978]]
On June 14, 1978, Rose singled in the first inning off [[Chicago Cubs|Cubs]] pitcher [[Dave Roberts (pitcher)|Dave Roberts]]; Rose would proceed to get a hit in every game he played until August 1, making a run at [[Joe DiMaggio]]'s record [[Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak|56-game hitting streak]], which had stood virtually unchallenged for thirty-seven years. The streak started quietly, but by the time it had reached thirty games, the media took notice and a pool of reporters accompanied Rose and the Reds to every game. On July 19, in a game against the Phillies, Rose was hitless going into the eighth inning when he walked. His team was trailing in the ninth inning and the streak appeared over, but the Reds batted through their entire lineup and gave Rose another chance to bat. Rose faced [[Ron Reed]] and laid down a perfect [[Bunt (baseball)|bunt]] single to extend the streak to thirty-two games.

Rose would eventually tie [[Willie Keeler]]'s 1897 single-season NL record at forty-four games, but the streak came to an end on August 1 when [[Gene Garber]] of the [[Atlanta Braves]] [[strikeout|struck out]] Rose in the ninth inning.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19780801&id=_egbAAAAIBAJ&pg=6488,2915547&hl=en|title=The Dispatch – Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref> With two outs and a 2–2 count, Garber decided not to challenge Rose with a [[fastball]]. He took full advantage of Rose's predicament by throwing him an off-speed pitch out of the strike zone, which Rose swung at and missed. Rose was livid after the game, blasting Garber and the Braves for treating the situation "like it was the ninth inning of the seventh game of the World Series".<ref>{{cite news|title=Former reliever Gene Garber recalls 19-year career and his role in baseball history |author=Joe O'Loughlin |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_2_63/ai_112167128 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040906180014/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_2_63/ai_112167128 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 6, 2004 |newspaper=Baseball Digest |date=February 2004 |access-date=April 28, 2010 }}</ref> Garber took the comment as a compliment: "I said to myself, 'Well, thanks, Pete. That's how I try to pitch every time I'm in a game.{{'"}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/pete-rose-obituary-tchse2ky |title=Pete Rose, MLB hit king who bet on baseball, dies at 83 |work=Newsday |date=October 2024 |accessdate=October 1, 2024}}</ref>