page_title: List of Nippon Professional Baseball players to hit for the cycle
section_title: Cycles by player
hierarchical_section_title: List of Nippon Professional Baseball players to hit for the cycle / Cycles by player
caption_attribution_description: English: Alex Ochoa, outfielder of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. 日本語: 広島東洋カープ外野手のアレックス・オチョア。
context_page_description: In baseball, completing the cycle is the accomplishment of hitting a single, a double, a triple, and a home run in the same game. Collecting the hits in that order is known as a "natural cycle", which has occurred five times in Nippon Professional Baseball. The cycle itself is rare in NPB, occurring 74 times since Fumio Fujimura's first cycle during the single league era in 1948. In terms of frequency, the cycle is roughly as common as a no-hitter; Baseball Digest calls it "one of the rarest feats in baseball". Hitting for the cycle was not recognized in Japanese professional baseball until former Major League Baseball player Daryl Spencer made a remark about it after hitting for the cycle with the Hankyu Braves in 1965. Of the 12 current NPB teams, only the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles have never had at least one player hit for the cycle.
  The most cycles hit by a player in Nippon Professional Baseball is three, accomplished by Bobby Rose. Playing for the Yokohama BayStars, Rose hit his first cycle on May 2, 1995, the next on April 29, 1997, and his final cycle on June 30, 1999.
caption: Alex Ochoa is the only player to hit a cycle in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball.
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