3000! Biggio reaches career hit milestone
3000! Biggio reaches career hit milestone
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BIG-GI-O! BIG-GI-O! BIG-GI-O!
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"Today was a special day," he said. "I know my teammates enjoyed it. I know my family enjoyed it, and I really think that the fans really made it what it was today. And that is a nice appreciation."
And the franchise icon did it at home, as he and his legions of fans had hoped.
Biggio collected his 3,000th hit a day before the 19th anniversary of his first major league hit, which he collected on June 29, 1988, on a single off the Los Angeles Dodgers' Orel Hershiser.
"The right thing happened," said Biggio, who added a leadoff single in the ninth and a two-out, infield single to short in the 11th to tie his career high with his first five-hit game since April 3, 2001, against the Milwaukee Brewers. "God knows I've only had
one five-hit game before in my life. ... So you get five hits on the day you get 3,000 hits, five singles again, too. That's hard to do."