When Manny Machado rejoined the Orioles this weekend, he was tied with a few hundred other players for the shortest consecutive-games streak in baseball.
The swing he took at Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura put an end to what was the game's longest current playing streak. Machado went from being baseball's new iron man to channeling Iron Mike to being on an unwelcome four-game, five-day vacation.
Let's not get carried away. He wasn't ever going to make Cal Ripken Jr. stay up at night worrying about his place in baseball history.