Jake Cronenworth hits for cycle
Jake is having himself a day as he just got an infield single to complete the cycle, he already had a HR, double and triple.
Hitting close to .300 with 13 HR's and 38 rbi's for the season, really easy guy to root for!
Tigers are rained out so I'm watching my 2nd favorite team leading18-4 in top of 6th.
Inconceivable
It’s pronounced “incontheivable”
Great!
Pretty, pretty good.
How great is that.
Wow, 23-8 now in the bottom of the 8th. 21 hits for SD so far, including 4 each by Cronenworth and Pham, and two other Padres with 3 hits each.
And of course I had him on the bench tonight.
24-8 on 22 hits and 9 walks. Now going into the bottom of the 9th.
Never give up!
(edit) The Nationals didn't listen to me. 24-8 final score.
I cannot believe the Rays traded this guy.
The Rays are rarely on the wrong end of a trade. It is also uncanny how often they are right not to re-sign a key free agent. But with this trade, they seem to be on the wrong end. Hunter Renfroe was a key piece in that deal, and he sucked so much last year that they let him go.
With all of statistics baseball keeps, I wonder if it's easy to find how often a cycle—Cronenworth hitting the 332nd one—ends with a single.
It might be an even distribution, with a single the last hit 25% of the time. Or would it end with a single more often because singles are easy to get after hitting a home run, triple and double? Or less often because a player, consciously or subconsciously, doesn't bear down as much after hitting a homer, triple and double?
Here's Wikipedia on hitting for the cycle, with all sorts of interesting stuff: the natural cycle (single, double, triple, homer in order), the "unnatural cycle" (reverse order), cycle ending in a walk-off homer, players with more than one cycle, etc.:
I looked some stuff up this morning too as I was certain that the cycle was MUCH more rare than a no-hitter. Well...I was wrong on that as the ratio is close to 50/50. It's just lately that there have been more no-hitters than cycles.
Even with a 50/50 or so ratio, it is interesting that the no-no is far more celebrated than the cycle.
Definitely interesting that it’s close to 50/50. I would bet the celebration of the no hitter would be due to the much higher impact on win expectancy.
You now have me more curious about cycles, BlueVet.
I'm about to look up (if there is such a category listed) "inside-the-park" cycles.
(edit@10:35) There are 22 of them listed. But nobody has had a cycle that included an inside-the-park HR since 1943. In fact, 20 of the 22 happened between 1884 and 1930; after that, according to Baseball Almanac, only two more, in 1940 and '43.
I noticed that 4 of the players with inside the park cycles played for the New York Giants, which was of no surprise.
The Giants played in the Polo Grounds from 1911-1957, which had an extremely deep center field and therefore was conducive to lots of triples and inside-the-park HRs: from left-center (440 ft) to right-center (447 ft), with a notch in dead center that stretched to 483 feet (only 4 "normal" home runs ever hit out in that notch), the ball rolled forever if it got past the defender.
Cronenworth and Ohtani have become my favorite players and neither of them play for my favorite team. Hard not to love what those guys do on the field.