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NEW YORK – Andre Ethier singled in the prototypal play of the Los Angeles Dodgers' mettlesome against the New royalty Mets on weekday night, decent the prototypal earth association contestant in digit years with a 30-game touch streak.

Mets pitcher Jonathon Niese lapse behindhand 3-0, and Ethier unsmooth the next movement to edifice field. The preceding contestant with a touch color of that length was Washington's Ryan Zimmerman, who impact in 30 straight games from April 8 to May 12, 2009.

The 29-year-old Ethier was damaged from the play roster for the prototypal instance this season on Wednesday because of an light left elbow. He was batting .387 during the streak.

Ethier is one mettlesome shy of the Dodgers record, ordered by Willie solon from Aug. 1 to Sept. 3, 1969. He surpassed Zach Wheat's 29-game color for the second-longest in edifice history. Wheat's color was from Aug. 20 to Sept. 16, 1916, when the aggroup played in Brooklyn.

"Someone asked me who Zach Wheat was," Ethier said before the game. "I intellection he was added secondary leaguer we had. I intellection he was being titled up."

The terminal contestant with a color of more than 30 games was Philadelphia's Chase Utley, who impact in 35 in a row from June 23 to Aug. 3, 2006.

"I'm not losing a wink of sleep most it," Ethier said before the game, bright to handle his streak.

This season marks the 70th day of Joe DiMaggio's record 56-game touch color for the New royalty Yankees.

"Fifty-six — that's a daylong artefact away," Ethier said.

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