Hitting for the cycle

Hitting for the cycle is a baseball accomplishment characterized by a player hitting a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game, though not necessarily in that order. Collecting the hits in that order is known as a "natural cycle".

The feat is understandably rare in Major League Baseball as it requires a game of no less than four hits and the unusual combination of a home run, which requires a batter to hit for some power, and a triple, which requires a batter to have some speed on the basepaths. The accomplishment is held in high enough esteem, however, that players needing only a single to "complete the cycle" have been known to "hold up" at first base on balls hit in the alley.

Listed below are the 246 occurrences of players "hitting for the cycle" in Major League Baseball (multiple occurrences denoted into parentheses):

Date	Player	Team
05-25-1882	Curry Foley	Buffalo NL
06-16-1884	Jim O'Rourke	Buffalo NL
06-13-1885	Mox McQuery	Detroit NL
05-24-1886	Fred Dunlap	St. Louis NL
08-21-1886	Jack Rowe	Detroit NL
05-02-1887	Jimmy Ryan	Chicago NL
08-25-1888	Jack Glasscock	Indianapolis NL
08-15-1889	Tom Burns	Brooklyn NL
08-06-1890	Bill Hassamaer	Washington NL
08-17-1894	Sam Thompson	Philadelphia NL
09-28-1894	Tom Parrott	Cincinnati NL
08-16-1895	Ed Cartwright	Washington NL
05-30-1896	Herman Long	Boston NL
07-10-1901	Harry Davis	Philadelphia AL
07-23-1901	Fred Clarke	Pittsburgh NL
07-30-1901	Nap Lajoie	Philadelphia AL
05-07-1903	Fred Clarke (2)	Pittsburgh NL
07-21-1903	Pat Dougherty	Boston AL
09-24-1903	Bill Bradley	Cleveland AL
06-20-1904	Duff Cooley	Boston NL
10-04-1904	John Bates	Boston NL
10-02-1908	Chief Wilson	Pittsburgh NL
08-25-1910	Bill Collins	Boston NL
07-03-1911	Frank Baker	Philadelphia AL
08-19-1911	Mike Mitchell	Cincinnati NL
06-09-1912	Tris Speaker	Boston AL
06-10-1912	Chief Meyers	New York NL
07-25-1912	Honus Wagner	Pittsburgh NL
07-05-1915	Cliff Heathcote	St. Louis NL
08-08-1920	George Sisler	St. Louis AL
09-17-1920	Bobby Veach	Detroit AL
09-17-1920	George Burns	New York NL
05-07-1921	Bob Meusel	New York AL
06-01-1921	Dave Bancroft	New York NL
08-13-1921	George Sisler (2)	St. Louis AL
08-30-1921	Ross Youngs	New York NL
05-25-1922	Ray Schalk	Chicago AL
07-03-1922	Bob Meusel (2)	New York AL
07-07-1923	Pie Traynor	Pittsburgh NL
04-17-1924	Goose Goslin	Washington AL
06-04-1925	Kiki Cuyler	Pittsburgh NL
06-20-1925	Max Carey	Pittsburgh NL
07-21-1925	Bob Fothergill	Detroit AL
07-15-1927	Jim Bottomley	St. Louis NL
08-05-1927	Cy Williams	Philadelphia NL
05-29-1928	Bill Terry	New York NL
07-26-1928	Bob Meusel (3)	New York AL
05-16-1929	Mel Ott	New York NL
05-23-1929	Ski Melillo	St. Louis AL
09-02-1929	Joe Cronin	Washington AL
05-08-1930	Freddie Lindstrom	New York NL
06-23-1930	Hack Wilson	Chicago NL
08-21-1930	Chick Hafey	St. Louis NL
05-18-1931	Chuck Klein	Philadelphia NL
07-24-1931	Babe Herman (2)	Brooklyn NL
06-03-1932	Tony Lazzeri	New York AL
07-22-1932	Mickey Cochrane	Philadelphia AL
05-05-1933	Pepper Martin	St. Louis NL
05-26-1933	Chuck Klein (2)	Philadelphia NL
06-24-1933	Arky Vaughan	Pittsburgh NL
08-02-1933	Mickey Cochrane (2)	Philadelphia AL
08-06-1933	Pinky Higgins	Philadelphia AL
08-14-1933	Jimmie Foxx	Philadelphia AL
08-17-1933	Earl Averill	Cleveland AL
09-30-1933	Babe Herman (3)	Chicago NL
06-10-1934	Doc Cramer	Philadelphia AL
06-25-1934	Lou Gehrig	New York AL
08-19-1934	Moose Solters	Boston AL
06-29-1935	Joe Medwick	St. Louis NL
05-24-1936	Sam Leslie	New York NL
04-20-1937	Joe DiMaggio	New York NL
08-01-1937	Lou Gehrig (2)	New York NL
07-12-1938	Odell Hale	Cleveland AL
05-05-1939	Charlie Gehringer	Detroit AL
07-19-1939	Arky Vaughan (2)	Pittsburgh NL
06-08-1940	Harry Craft	Cincinnati NL
06-15-1940	Johnny Mize	St. Louis NL
07-19-1940	Joe Cronin	Boston AL
09-08-1940	Joe Gordon	New York AL
07-19-1941	George McQuinn	St. Louis AL
07-03-1943	Bobby Doerr	Boston AL
07-06-1944	Dixie Walker	Brooklyn NL
07-15-1945	Bill Salkeld	Pittsburgh NL
05-19-1946	Ted Williams	Boston AL
05-13-1947	Bobby Doerr (2)	Boston AL
09-14-1947	Wally Westlake	Pittsburgh NL
08-29-1948	Jackie Robinson	Brooklyn NL
06-14-1949	Wally Westlake (2)	Pittsburgh NL
06-25-1949	Gil Hodges	Brooklyn NL
07-24-1949	Stan Musial	St. Louis NL
06-02-1950	George Kell	Detroit AL
06-25-1950	Ralph Kiner	Pittsburgh NL
06-28-1950	Elmer Valo	Philadelphia AL
09-07-1950	Gus Bell	Pittsburgh NL
06-04-1952	Larry Doby	Cleveland AL
07-11-1954	Don Mueller	New York NL
07-02-1957	Mickey Mantle	New York AL
05-02-1959	Frank Robinson	Cincinnati NL
07-15-1960	Brooks Robinson	Baltimore AL
08-14-1960	Bill White	St. Louis NL
09-14-1961	Ken Boyer	St. Louis NL
07-13-1962	Johnny Callison	Philadelphia NL
08-07-1963	Willie Stargell	Pittsburgh NL
07-28-1964	Jim Fregosi	California AL
05-14-1965	Carl Yastrzemski	Boston AL
07-17-1966	Billy Williams	Chicago NL
08-11-1966	Wes Parker	Los Angeles NL
05-20-1970	Rod Carew	Minnesota AL
07-02-1970	Tony Horton	Cleveland AL
07-06-1970	Tommie Agee	New York NL
07-08-1970	Jim Ray Hart	San Francisco NL
07-09-1971	Freddie Patek	Kansas City AL
04-16-1972	Dave Kingman	San Francisco NL
08-02-1972	Bobby Murcer	New York AL
09-19-1972	César Tovar	Minnesota AL
06-27-1973	Joe Torre	St. Louis NL
06-09-1974	Lou Brock	St. Louis NL
04-22-1976	Larry Hisle	Minnesota AL
06-25-1976	Lyman Bostock	Minnesota AL
08-09-1976	Cesar Cedeno (2)	Houston NL
09-03-1976	Mike Hegan	Milwaukee AL
06-24-1977	John Mayberry	Kansas City AL
09-24-1977	Andy Thornton	Cleveland AL
07-20-1978	Mike Cubbage	Minnesota AL
05-28-1979	George Brett	Kansas City AL
08-10-1979	Frank White	Kansas City AL
04-22-1980	Fred Lynn	Boston AL
06-12-1980	Gary Ward	Minnesota AL
10-01-1980	Cal Ripken, Jr.	Baltimore AL
05-16-1984	Carlton Fisk	Chicago AL
06-23-1984	Dwight Evans	Boston AL
06-27-1985	Keith Hernandez	New York NL
07-23-1985	Rich Gedman	Boston AL
05-16-1986	Kirby Puckett	Minnesota AL
04-29-1987	Andre Dawson	Chicago NL
05-04-1987	Candy Maldonado	San Francisco NL
08-16-1987	Tim Raines	Montreal NL
09-23-1987	Albert Hall	Atlanta NL
06-12-1988	Robin Yount	Milwaukee AL
07-09-1988	Chris Speier	San Francisco NL
09-14-1988	Mike Greenwell	Boston AL
04-16-1989	Kelly Gruber	Toronto AL
06-02-1989	Kevin McReynolds	New York NL
08-25-1989	Paul Molitor	Milwaukee AL
06-24-1991	Dave Winfield	California AL
09-15-1991	Ray Lankford	St. Louis NL
08-25-1992	Mark Grace	Chicago NL
07-23-1993	Jay Buhner	Seattle AL
07-28-1993	Travis Fryman	Detroit AL
04-12-1994	Rondell White	Montreal NL
08-25-1995	Tony Fernandez	New York AL
05-18-1996	John Valentin	Boston AL
07-03-1996	Alex Rodriguez	Seattle AL
09-11-1997	John Olerud	New York NL
05-18-1998	Mike Blowers	Oakland AL
06-10-1998	Dante Bichette	Colorado NL
07-25-1998	Neifi Perez	Colorado NL
05-03-1999	Jeff Kent	San Francisco NL
06-19-1999	Todd Helton	Colorado NL
07-06-1999	Jose Valentin	Chicago AL
05-19-2000	Mike Lansing	Colorado NL
06-21-2000	Luis Gonzalez	Arizona NL
06-09-2001	Jeff Bagwell	Houston NL
08-17-2001	Jeff Frye	Toronto AL
09-29-2001	Miguel Tejada	Oakland AL
04-08-2002	Craig Biggio	Houston NL
09-18-2002	Brad Wilkerson	Montreal NL
06-29-2003	Travis Hafner	Cleveland AL
09-14-2003	Vladimir Guerrero	Montreal NL
04-27-2004	Chad Moeller	Milwaukee NL
05-26-2004	Daryle Ward	Pittsburgh NL
06-28-2004	David Bell	Philadelphia NL
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