The Yankees opened up a four-game lead as they beat the Browns 6-2 for their eleventh straight win. Once again, DiMaggio singled in the first inning to reach fifty in a row, but he was far from done. He would single twice more and then finish his day by smashing his league-leading twentieth home run in the ninth inning. He was 4 for 5 on the day, which brought his average up .365, but still far short of Ted Williams. The Boston slugger had been slumping of late, and his average had dipped all the way down to .398. As history tells us, he'd recover.
This post cites information from "Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41," by Michael Seidel
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