Comments on: 3+ XBH in a post-season game

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:50:59 +0000

Wikipedia says there've been 276 cycles. Over about 200,000 games (a rough, ROUGH estimate, using this: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/interview-dave-retrosheet-smith/), that averages to one every 725 games. We've had about 1200 post-season games without a cycle. We're due fairly soon.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:45:35 +0000

Well, you covered a larger time period...

By: OscarAzocar

OscarAzocar — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:34:40 +0000

That was a nicely written article. Too bad I hadn't seen it. I could have saved myself some time.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:55:40 +0000

I did a similar post on missing the cycle a while back:

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

By: OscarAzocar

OscarAzocar — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:44:31 +0000

For comparative purposes I had PI spit out the regular season totals as well.

Regular season since 1957:

cycles: 130
missing 1b: 262
missing 2b: 914
missing 3b: 8425
missing hr: 2235

By: OscarAzocar

OscarAzocar — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:17:51 +0000

Your post made me wonder how many players were 1 hit short of a cycle in the post season.
Including the 2 mentioned above there were 122:
missing 2b: 11 http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/N9Nx
missing 3b: 86 http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/cSBC
missing hr: 23 http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/MEVN