Dustin Pedroia / missing the cycle by a single
Posted by Andy on July 3, 2008
Last night, Dustin Pedroia smacked 2 doubles, a triple, and a homer but missed hitting for the cycle by a single. How rare is it? Well believe it or not, Pedroia is already the 3rd guy to do it this year:
Cnt Player Date Tm Opp GmReslt PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS BOr Positions +----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---------+ 1 Dustin Pedroia 2008-07-02 BOS @TBR L 6-7 5 5 3 4 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2nd 2B 2 Adrian Gonzalez 2008-04-22 SDP @HOU L 7-11 4 4 2 3 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3rd 1B 3 Eric Hinske 2008-04-22 TBR TOR W 6-4 4 4 3 3 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6th 1B
It happened 11 times in 2007 and 10 times in 2006. Prior to the offensive explosion in 1993, it happened roughly 5 times a year on average. See here for the full list.
Since 1956, the most times any one player has done it is 3:
Games Link to Individual Games -----------------+-----+------------------------- Manny Trillo 3 Ind. Games Frank Robinson 3 Ind. Games Gregg Jefferies 3 Ind. Games Brian Giles 3 Ind. Games Ellis Burks 3 Ind. Games Hank Aaron 3 Ind. Games
Actually that's a pretty good collection of players. Two HOFers and every other guy with at least two All-Star appearances.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 am
A bit more interesting to also restrict it to 4 hits or more, like Pedroia did. That seems to reduce the list by more than 90%.