2022
Miguel Cabrera's 3,000th Hit
Miguel Cabrera singles twice in a 13–0 Detroit win over Colorado to reach 3,000 hits, having already passed 500 home runs.
Collection
Career milestones
The days players reached the round numbers a career is measured by, each one dated to the game it happened in.
33
Milestones
1897
First
2022
Most recent
2020s · 1
2010s · 5
2018
Albert Pujols's 3,000th Hit
Albert Pujols singles twice in Seattle for his 3,000th hit, joining Hank Aaron and Willie Mays in reaching both 3,000 hits and 600 home runs.
2017
Adrian Beltré's 3,000th Hit
Adrian Beltré doubles at Globe Life Park for his 3,000th hit, the first player born in the Dominican Republic to reach the milestone.
2016
Ichiro Suzuki's 3,000th Hit
Ichiro Suzuki triples at Coors Field for his 3,000th major league hit, having already collected more than 1,200 in Japan before he arrived.
2015
Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th Hit
Alex Rodriguez's only hit of the night is a home run for his 3,000th, in his first season back from a year-long doping suspension.
2011
Derek Jeter's 3,000th Hit
Derek Jeter homers for his 3,000th hit and goes five-for-five against Tampa Bay, the first Yankee to reach the milestone.
2000s · 4
2007
Craig Biggio's 3,000th Hit
Craig Biggio singles five times in six at-bats at Minute Maid Park to reach 3,000 hits, in his twentieth and final season in Houston.
2005
Rafael Palmeiro's 3,000th Hit
Rafael Palmeiro reaches 3,000 hits in Seattle weeks before a failed drug test ended his season and defined his legacy.
2001
Rickey Henderson's 3,000th Hit
Rickey Henderson doubles in his only at-bat on the final day of the 2001 season for his 3,000th hit, the same afternoon Tony Gwynn played his last game.
2000
Cal Ripken's 3,000th Hit
Cal Ripken singles three times in Minnesota to reach 3,000 hits, five years after breaking Lou Gehrig's consecutive-games record.
1990s · 7
1999
Wade Boggs's 3,000th Hit
Wade Boggs homers for his 3,000th hit, the first player to reach the milestone that way, a day after Tony Gwynn got there.
1999
Tony Gwynn's 3,000th Hit
Tony Gwynn singles four times in Montreal to reach 3,000 hits, one day before Wade Boggs got there too.
1996
Paul Molitor's 3,000th Hit
Paul Molitor triples for his 3,000th hit at Kansas City, the only member of the club to reach the mark with a triple, during a 225-hit season at age forty.
1995
Eddie Murray's 3,000th Hit
Eddie Murray singles in Minnesota for his 3,000th hit, adding it to a home run total that would also pass 500.
1993
Dave Winfield's 3,000th Hit
Dave Winfield singles twice for Minnesota against Oakland at forty-one, a year after driving in the winning runs of a World Series.
1992
George Brett's 3,000th Hit
George Brett needs four hits in one night to reach 3,000, and gets all four in a 4–0 Kansas City win at California.
1992
Robin Yount's 3,000th Hit
Robin Yount singles against Cleveland at County Stadium for his 3,000th hit, in his nineteenth season with the only club he played for.
1980s · 1
1985
Rod Carew's 3,000th Hit
Rod Carew singles against the Minnesota Twins, his club for twelve seasons, to reach 3,000 hits as a California Angel.
1970s · 7
1979
Carl Yastrzemski's 3,000th Hit
Carl Yastrzemski singles against the Yankees at Fenway Park for his 3,000th hit, becoming the first American League player with 3,000 hits and 400 home runs.
1979
Lou Brock's 3,000th Hit
Lou Brock singles twice against the Chicago Cubs, the team that traded him fifteen years earlier, to reach 3,000 hits in his final season.
1978
Pete Rose's 3,000th Hit
Pete Rose singles twice leading off for Cincinnati against Montreal for his 3,000th hit, at thirty-seven and with eight years still to play.
1974
Al Kaline's 3,000th Hit
Al Kaline reaches 3,000 hits in Baltimore in the final month of his twenty-second and last season, all of them for Detroit.
1972
Roberto Clemente's 3,000th Hit
Roberto Clemente doubles at Three Rivers Stadium for his 3,000th hit; it was the last regular-season hit of his career, three months before his death.
1970
Willie Mays's 3,000th Hit
Willie Mays singles twice in a 10–1 rout of Montreal at Candlestick Park, becoming the tenth man to 3,000 hits.
1970
Hank Aaron's 3,000th Hit
Hank Aaron reaches 3,000 hits at Cincinnati in a three-hit game that also included a home run, four years before he passed Babe Ruth.
1950s · 1
1958
Stan Musial's 3,000th Hit
Stan Musial comes off the bench at Wrigley Field and doubles in a run for his 3,000th hit, in his only at-bat of the day.
1940s · 1
1942
Paul Waner's 3,000th Hit
Paul Waner gets his 3,000th hit for the Boston Braves against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the team he had played for the previous fifteen seasons.
1920s · 3
1925
Eddie Collins's 3,000th Hit
Eddie Collins reaches 3,000 hits during a 16–15 loss in Detroit, in his twentieth season and his second stint managing the White Sox.
1925
Tris Speaker's 3,000th Hit
Tris Speaker singles in a 9–6 Cleveland win over Washington for his 3,000th hit, on his way to a career record 792 doubles.
1921
Ty Cobb's 3,000th Hit
Ty Cobb, in his first season as Detroit's player-manager, collects three hits against Boston to pass 3,000 for his career.
1910s · 2
1914
Nap Lajoie's 3,000th Hit
Nap Lajoie doubles twice against the Yankees in Cleveland, joining Honus Wagner as the second man to reach 3,000 hits in the 1914 season alone.
1914
Honus Wagner's 3,000th Hit
Honus Wagner singles at Cincinnati at the age of 40, reaching 3,000 hits in his eighteenth major league season.
1890s · 1
1897
Cap Anson's 3,000th Hit
Cap Anson became the first player to reach 3,000 hits, in 1897 — though which game, and even which season, depends on an accounting question that has never been settled.