Article: The streak is over, but the praise in D.C. keeps coming for Beach's Ryan Zimmerman.(Sports)

By Ed Miller

The Virginian-Pilot

WASHINGTON

The streak didn't burden Ryan Zimmerman. It wasn't until the final at-bat of his recently-ended 30-game hitting tear that the Washington Nationals' third baseman from Virginia Beach felt a tinge of pressure.

Not to extend the streak for himself, but for everyone else.

"It got to the point where I wanted to do it for other people, not me," he said Friday. "Other people had more fun with it than I did."

Don't get him wrong. Zimmerman had fun stringing together the longest hitting streak in the major leagues in two years. He didn't do it by dropping in bloop hits or legging ...

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