Rockies' Charlie Blackmon Collects 3rd Game of Season with 5 Hits and No Outs

Colorado Rockies outfielder Charlie Blackmon had a hit in each of his five at-bats during Wednesday afternoon's rout of the Los Angeles Dodgers, collecting his third such game of the season. With that performance, he became just the sixth player in the modern era to record a hit in each of five or more at-bats on three separate occasions in a single season, per Elias Sports Bureau (via ESPN Stats & Info).

Blackmon first did so with a six-hit performance against the Arizona Diamondbacks back on April 4, and then had a hit in each of his five at-bats against the Minnesota Twins on July 12. The 28-year-old was not retired by opposing pitching a single time in any of those five-hit games in 2014.

Several other players have collected three five-hit games in a season in the past, but only a select group of players have failed to record an out in each of those performances.

In fact, outside of Blackmon and Ichiro Suzuki, every player in this club currently resides in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Ty Cobb was the first player in the modern era with three or more such games, doing so in the 1922 season. He was then followed by Tris Speaker (1923), Stan Musial (1948) and Tony Gwynn (1993), per Elias (via ESPN Stats & Info).

Suzuki likely had the most impressive out of any of these seasons, as he reached the feat while breaking the single-season hits record of 262 during his 2004 campaign.

Getting back to Blackmon, the outfielder has already set personal bests in home runs (18), RBI (70), runs scored (76), total hits (160) and stolen bases (28) this season while batting atop the Colorado lineup. The first-time All-Star's breakout campaign has been one of the lone bright spots for the last-place Rockies.

All stats courtesy of Baseball-Reference unless otherwise specified.