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Kelly Johnson hits for the cycle but the Diamondbacks lose

Posted by Andy on July 25, 2010
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Two nights ago Kelly Johnson hit for the cycle but the D-backs lost the game, 7-4, to the Giants. Teams don't lose very often when one of their players hits for the cycle. Click through to learn more.

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10 Responses to “Kelly Johnson hits for the cycle but the Diamondbacks lose”

  1. JeremY Says:
    July 24th, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    They lost because he is a traitor because he left the Braves.

  2. JeremY Says:
    July 24th, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    @my old comment The Braves did suck that year.

  3. DJ Young Says:
    July 25th, 2010 at 8:19 am

    Is there some kind of table to show when a team does lose when a player hits for the cycle. You usually do a table

  4. Andy Says:
    July 25th, 2010 at 9:08 am

    WordPress mobile ate most of my post, sorry. The gist of it is that teams win about 85% of the time when one of their players hits for the cycle. It's 82% since 1993.

  5. Andy Says:
    July 25th, 2010 at 9:18 am

    195 cycles in winning efforts since 1920. see below for the list of losses.

    Rk Player Date Tm Opp Rslt AB 1B 2B 3B HR RBI
    1 Bengie Molina 2010-07-16 TEX BOS W 8-4 4 1 1 1 1 4
    2 Jody Gerut 2010-05-08 MIL ARI W 17-3 6 1 1 1 1 4
    3 B.J. Upton 2009-10-02 TBR NYY W 13-4 5 2 1 1 1 6
    4 Felix Pie 2009-08-14 BAL LAA W 16-6 5 1 1 1 1 4
    5 Troy Tulowitzki 2009-08-10 COL CHC W 11-5 5 2 1 1 1 7
    6 Melky Cabrera 2009-08-02 NYY CHW W 8-5 5 1 1 1 1 4
    7 Michael Cuddyer 2009-05-22 MIN MIL W 11-3 5 1 1 1 1 5
    8 Jason Kubel 2009-04-17
  6. Andy Says:
    July 25th, 2010 at 9:24 am

    34 cycles in losing effort

    http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/Nscpt

  7. Bryan Mueller Says:
    July 25th, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    Has anyone who hit for the cycle only had one RBI?

  8. Andy Says:
    July 26th, 2010 at 9:25 am

    Bryan, it's happened a lot actually. I will have a post up later today about that.

  9. koma Says:
    July 26th, 2010 at 10:16 am

    there are 26 of them

    http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/wseKG

  10. One RBI while hitting for the cycle » Baseball-Reference Blog » Blog Archive Says:
    July 26th, 2010 at 11:01 am

    [...] made a post recently about Kelly Johnson hitting for the cycle but his team losing the game. My mobile editor ended up messing up the most, so here is a little of that data [...]

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