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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Earlier this week, Minor League Baseball announced the Player and Pitcher of the Month Award winners for July.
Outfielder Turner Hill earned the honor for the Triple-A Pacific Coast League. Hill batted .422/.490/.611 and led the league in average (.422), hits (38) and triples (three). He was second in total bases (55) and on-base percentage (.490), was fourth in OPS (1.101) and fifth in runs (19). He walked more times (10) than he struck out (eight) and led Minor League Baseball in hits. He recorded 14 multi-hit games and ended the month on a 17-game hitting streak. Hill, 27, was signed by San Francisco as a free agent out of Marietta College in 2023.
As of Tuesday, Hill holds a 20-game hitting streak. It marks the longest hitting streak of his career and fourth-longest hitting streak in the Pacific Coast League this season. It is also the third-longest single-season hitting streak in franchise history, behind Daric Barton, who had a 24-game streak in 2007, and Nick Buss, who had a 22-game streak in 2014. Hill's season-long .343 batting average ranks second in all of Triple-A among qualified batters, behind only Las Vegas Aviator, Joey Meneses.