Zac Veen extends hitting streak to 23 games with three doubles

Zac Veen turned The Ballpark at America First Square into a doubles clinic on Tuesday, going 3-for-4 with three doubles in Albuquerque’s 11-3 win over Salt Lake and extending his hitting streak to 23 games. The Rockies prospect also walked, scored once and drove in two runs, giving another jolt to a run that is starting to look less like a flare-up and more like a statement.

Veen did damage early and kept finding gaps. He produced a run-scoring extra-base hit in the first inning, doubled again in the third and added a third double in the seventh that nearly left the park. One of the doubles came on a 105.8 mph ball into right-center field, while another was a 99.4 mph liner off the right-field wall. This was not a lucky night on the road. It was a loud, repeated reminder that Albuquerque’s offense is running through a 24-year-old left fielder who keeps punishing mistakes.

The streak began May 27, and over those 23 games Veen has piled up 12 multihit efforts and 83 total bases, the most in the minor leagues during that span. He has hit .433/.451/.856 over the run, production that would stand out at any level and has been even harder to ignore because it has come in long enough sample to outlast the usual summer surge. For the season at Triple-A Albuquerque, Veen now owns a .999 OPS and 11 home runs.

That matters because his climb to this point has been interrupted more than once. Colorado took Veen ninth overall in the 2020 draft, and he reached the majors in 2025, but his first big league look lasted 12 games and produced a .118 average, 14 strikeouts and two walks before he went back to Triple-A. Injuries, including left wrist tendon, back and thumb problems, slowed his rise through the system. Now, after a stretch built on doubles, hard contact and a 23-game streak that keeps growing, Veen is making the Rockies weigh him differently.