BOSTON -- Now that the streak is over, Xander Bogaerts can admit it: Chasing Joe DiMaggio -- Dom DiMaggio, too, for that matter -- is downright exhausting.
"For sure, man," the young Boston Red Sox shortstop said Friday night after striking out on a high fastball to end both a 5-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays and the majors' longest active hitting streak at 26 games. "Every third or fourth at-bat [of a game] I was kind of like, 'You don't really have to get a hit, but you need one.