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Beat the Streak is a nice feature offered on MLB.com. Basically, you pick one player per day, and if that player gets a hit, it starts or continues your streak. If he doesn’t, you go back to zero. If you’re the first person to get a streak up to 57 in a season, you win a million bucks. It’s great. So we decided we would each play this game every day, and let you know who our picks are.  Every time one of our streak’s ends we will erase all of our selections from that streak.

Seth’s Picks (Current: 2, Longest: 17)

August 4, 2009–Scott Rolen (vs. Tom Gorzelanny). A couple of trade deadline guys.

August 5, 2009–Don’t remember, but I got it right

August 6, 2009–Jason Kubel (vs. Fausto Carmona). Good history against a pitcher in tough times, what’s not to like?

Steve’s Picks (Current: 5, Longest: 7)

August 1, 2009–Orlando Hudson (vs. Derek Lowe). (1-3, 2B)

August 2, 2009–Ichiro (vs. Scott Feldman). (2-4)

August 3, 2009–Justin Upton (vs. Nelson Figueroa). (1-5)

August 4, 2009–Joe Mauer (vs. David Huff). (3-5, 3 2B)

August 5, 2009–Carl Crawford (vs. Brad Penny). (1-3, HR)