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Recent players to get 3,000 hits

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Albert Pujols

Pujols picked up hit Nos. 3,000 and 3,001 in the same game against the Mariners.

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Adrián Beltré

Beltré ripped a double down the third-base line on a 3-0 count to ensure his place in baseball lore.

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Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro tripled against the Rockies for his 3,000th hit in MLB. He finished with 3,089 hits in MLB, plus 1,278 hits in the Japan Pacific League.

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Alex Rodriguez

A-Rod became the second to reach 3,000 hits as a Yankee and the third to reach the milestone with a homer.

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Derek Jeter

Jeter homered in his second at-bat for No. 3,000, and finished the game with a five-hit day.

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Craig Biggio

Biggio’s 3,000th was his third hit on the day. He ended the game with five singles, becoming the first player in MLB history to tally five hits in a game where he also reached his 3,000th.

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Rafael Palmeiro

Palmeiro's milestone hit made him, at the time, the only player besides Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Eddie Murray with 3,000 hits and 500 homers.

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Rickey Henderson

Baseball’s all-time runs, steals and walks leader joined the 3,000-hit club on the same day Tony Gwynn played his final game.

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Cal Ripken Jr.

Needing three hits to become the 24th member of the 3,000-hit club, Ripken responded with three singles as part of a 3-for-5 day at the plate.

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Wade Boggs

Boggs homered off Cleveland's Chris Haney for hit No. 3,000. No player had ever before hit a home run to reach the 3,000 mark.

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Tony Gwynn

Gwynn became the 22nd player to join the elite club -- and did so only one day ahead of Boggs.