Jacob Wilson’s MLB-Record Errorless Streak Survives Scare, Climbs to 113 Games After Overturned Call
A's shortstop Jacob Wilson's record-setting errorless streak looked over after an eighth-inning misfire — until the official scorer reversed course and pushed it to 113 games.
Jacob Wilson’s history-making errorless streak at shortstop nearly ended on a bang-bang throw Tuesday night, but a postgame scorer’s reversal kept the Oakland Athletics rookie’s record run alive at 113 consecutive games. The sequence played out in the eighth inning of a 12-4 blowout loss to the Tampa Bay Rays at Sutter Health Park, when Wilson fired wide of second baseman Donovan Walton trying to complete a force play on a ball hit by Yandy Diaz.
The play was initially charged as an error — Wilson’s first miscue since July 6, 2025 — which would have snapped his major-league-record streak at 112 games. Hours after the final out, official scorer Mark Honbo announced a reversal: the ruling was changed to a fielder’s choice on Diaz, and Wilson’s errorless streak officially extended to 113, still standing as the longest in MLB history for a shortstop.
How the Streak Survived a Late Scare
The A’s were already trailing 9-2 when Wilson’s throw sailed past Walton, and Tampa Bay tacked on three more runs in the frame to blow the game open at 12-2 en route to the final 12-4 margin. In real time, it looked like the kind of play that would end a run dating back more than a calendar year. Wilson’s actual last charged error came on July 6, 2025, against the San Francisco Giants — his ninth of that rookie season and, until Tuesday’s temporary ruling, his most recent blemish across 231 total games at the position.
Instead, the streak lives on. Wilson passed Baltimore Orioles legend Mike Bordick’s shortstop record of 110 consecutive errorless games this past Sunday at Fenway Park in a win over the Boston Red Sox, and he has padded the cushion in the days since. Bordick’s mark, set across the 2002 season, included 544 consecutive clean chances; Wilson reached the record with 323 chances and has kept building since. The 24-year-old has now logged 81 putouts, 128 assists and 28 double plays without a single blemish during the run, an extraordinary level of defensive consistency at the most demanding position on the infield.
What the Streak Means for the Gold Glove Market
Wilson’s defensive reliability is reshaping how bettors and award voters view the American League shortstop conversation, even if the numbers underneath the streak tell a more complicated story for Gold Glove purposes. Advanced defensive-runs-saved models circulating ahead of this year’s Gold Glove announcements had actually pegged Tampa Bay’s Taylor Walls — Tuesday’s opponent — as the AL shortstop frontrunner on range and defensive runs saved, a reminder that a zero-error ledger and advanced range metrics don’t always point to the same name. A record-setting errorless streak carries obvious narrative weight with voters and oddsmakers alike, but it isn’t the same statistic that underpins DRS-based projections, and that gap is exactly the kind of detail sharp bettors watching awards futures will want to track as the postseason award conversation heats up.
Beyond defense, Wilson’s overall profile continues to matter for how the A’s are priced and discussed the rest of the season. He is hitting .268 with seven home runs, 37 RBI and a .692 OPS across 313 at-bats in his second full big-league season, a step back from the .311 average and .800 OPS that made him the runner-up for AL Rookie of the Year a season ago behind teammate Nick Kurtz. The dip in offensive output makes the defensive record all the more central to his value proposition this year — and to how his name shows up in award and player-prop markets, where a shortstop who simply never boots a ball is a differentiated bet regardless of what he’s doing at the plate.
For now, the number to watch is 113 and counting. Every clean chance Wilson fields moves the record further out of reach for the next challenger, and every close call — like Tuesday’s — is a reminder of how fragile even historic streaks can look in real time before the paperwork catches up. The Athletics themselves have little to play for down the stretch of a lost season in their temporary West Sacramento home, but Wilson’s night-to-night defensive reliability has become one of the more reliable storylines left on their schedule, and it is one bettors and award voters alike will keep circling as the record climbs.