Congratulations to Hanshin Tigers outfielder Tomoaki Kanemoto for playing 1,492 consecutive games without missing an inning. Last week, The Daily Yomiuri tells us that Kanemoto had his streak end when he was not in the lineup due to a sore hamstring. He later pinch hit in the eighth inning to keep his consecutive game streak going.

Kanemoto has a consecutive game streak of 1,638, a 994 game difference from Cal Ripken’s streak of 2,632.

Many people forget that Ripken had a 903 consecutive game streak without missing an inning – a record that Kanemoto has surpassed.

Teams in the Nippon Professional Baseball League play 144 regular season games per year. If Kanemoto continues his pace, he’ll break the record at the beginning of the 2017 season at the age of 49. Good luck!

(Information from Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe was used in this article.)