Comments on: Single Shy of the Cycle

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:28:20 +0000

Well Carl Everett had a game like that right here:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TBA/TBA200008290.shtml

He tripled, then doubled, then homered, and then homered again. His second homer game in the 7th inning with the Red Sox up 3-0, so it was a reasonably important HR.

Larry Walker did it too:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/COL/COL199605210.shtml

He did homer, double, triple, and then another homer.

Some guy named "Bad Henry" Aaron did it:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI196205030.shtml

Homer, triple, double, homer.

By: settes

settes — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:46:42 +0000

I'm also interested in guys who miss the cycle by a single, but not because they recorded outs, but because they only had three PAs. I'm not paying customer for B-R so I can only see one at a time, but here's the link I made for it, hopefully it works: http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/btS2

It seems like the majority were taken out of the game before their 4th plate appearance, either because of injury or a blowout but poor Bill Freehan was on deck in the Bottom of the eighth only to watch the guy at bat to ground into an inning ending double play and wouldn't get the chance to bat again. That was the closest he got to a cycle in his career.

By: elkboy

elkboy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:06:59 +0000

I'd be more interested in how many times somebody needed a single to complete the cycle, but got a double, triple, or homerun instead. I remember it happening at a game many years ago where somebody needed a single, but hit a home run. We joked that he should stop at first base.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:27:54 +0000

I looked into this same thing a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/sotd/archives/101