Jacob Wilson’s MLB-Record Errorless Streak at Shortstop Survives Overturned Call, Reaches 113 Games

Jacob Wilson’s night got complicated for about an hour on Tuesday, but the record survived. The Athletics shortstop’s major-league-record errorless streak at the position officially stands at 113 games after a wide throw in the eighth inning was reversed from an error to a fielder’s choice, keeping his historic run alive during a 12-4 blowout loss to the Tampa Bay Rays at Sutter Health Park.

The sequence briefly threatened to end one of the more remarkable defensive achievements in recent baseball memory. With the A’s already trailing 9-2, Wilson fielded a ground ball off the bat of Yandy Díaz and fired wide of second baseman Donovan Walton attempting to get the lead runner. The play was initially charged as an error — Wilson’s first since July 6, 2025, and just the ninth of his career across 231 games. The Rays capitalized, tacking on three more runs in the frame to push the lead to 12-2, and for a stretch, it appeared Wilson’s streak had ended at 112.

How the Streak Stayed Alive

After the game, official scorer Mark Honbo reviewed the play and reversed his initial call, ruling that Díaz reached on a fielder’s choice rather than charging Wilson with an error. That reclassification restored the streak to 113 consecutive errorless games at shortstop, still the active major-league record. Wilson had already broken new ground four days earlier, surpassing longtime Orioles infielder Mike Bordick’s mark of 110 errorless games — a record that had stood since the 2002 season — during a win over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.

Wilson’s last actual error came on July 6, 2025, against the San Francisco Giants. Since then, he has fielded everything cleanly across parts of two seasons, a stretch that has included 81 putouts, 128 assists and 28 double plays turned in the 2026 campaign alone. For context on the degree of difficulty, Bordick’s 2002 streak spanned 544 consecutive errorless fielding chances; Wilson’s current run has already produced well over 300. The all-time MLB record for errorless games at any position belongs to outfielder Robbie Grossman, who went 440 games without a miscue before that streak ended in 2022 — a mark Wilson is highly unlikely to threaten given the added difficulty of playing shortstop, the most demanding position on the infield.

A Complicated Season, A Clear Case for Gold Glove Buzz

The larger picture is that Wilson, 24, has done all of this while battling through an injury-shortened season. He has appeared in just 77 of Oakland’s first 118 games, hitting .268 with 7 home runs, 37 RBIs and a .692 OPS over 313 at-bats — a step down from the .311 average that ranked third in the American League a year ago, but still enough to lead all Athletics regulars in batting this season. The glovework, though, has been untouchable, and it has firmly put him in the conversation for his first career Gold Glove.

The complication for that award case is playing time. Gold Glove qualification typically requires a shortstop to log around 750 defensive innings, meaning Wilson likely needs to play essentially every remaining inning of the season to reach the threshold before the Athletics’ 138th game. Betting markets and award-futures boards tend to discount defensive-specialist candidates who miss extended stretches, even ones performing at a historically flawless level, and Wilson’s name recognition from this streak could be the deciding factor that keeps him firmly on oddsmakers’ radars regardless of the innings math. A story this widely covered — a shortstop breaking a 24-year-old record and having it survive a real-time overturned call — is exactly the kind of narrative that shifts award perception even when the underlying counting stats are muddled by missed time.

What This Means for the Betting Market

From a market standpoint, Wilson’s streak is turning into one of the more talked-about storylines in AL awards betting, particularly for anyone tracking Gold Glove or postseason-hardware futures. His profile — elite contact skills, a pedigree built around defensive precision, and now a record that’s actively being talked about on a nightly basis — is the type of storyline that tends to draw growing recognition in award markets as a season winds down, even for players who don’t lead the league in traditional volume stats. For bettors monitoring AL shortstop defensive honors or Athletics team props, Tuesday’s overturned call is a reminder that this streak is still very much a live storyline, one that could keep drawing attention right up until the games-played threshold either gets met or doesn’t. Either outcome will shape how sportsbooks and award-market watchers price his case over the season’s final stretch.

For now, the number that matters is 113 — and it’s still growing.