page_title: Hitting for the cycle
section_title: Triple
hierarchical_section_title: Hitting for the cycle / Components / Triple
caption_attribution_description: English: Baseball players Sam Crawford and Ty Cobb with a camera, circa 1914
context_page_description: In baseball, hitting for the cycle is the accomplishment of one batter 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". Cycles are semi-rare in Major League Baseball, having occurred only 330 times, starting with Curry Foley in 1882. The most recent cycle was accomplished by Cavan Biggio of the Toronto Blue Jays on September 17, 2019, against the Baltimore Orioles.
  The Miami Marlins are the only current MLB franchise who have never had a player hit for the cycle.
context_section_description: The triple, in which the batter reaches third base without being put out, and without the benefit of a fielding error, is often called the "hardest part of the cycle" to complete. Hitting a triple often comes under similar hit placement as a double, but may require impressive speed on the part of the runner. Because of this, it is rare to see a player with slower-than-average running speed complete the cycle, but it has happened, such as when catcher Bengie Molina hit for the cycle on July 16, 2010; Molina described himself as "the [slowest] guy in baseball" earlier that season. The MLB all-time leader in triples is Sam Crawford, who completed the three-base hit 309 times in his career; however, none of those triples was ever part of a cycle. Of the top five players in MLB history in triples, two – Honus Wagner and Roger Connor—have hit for the cycle: Connor in 1890 and Wagner in 1912. The MLB single-season record holder for triples, Chief Wilson, hit for the cycle in 1910, two years before his record-setting season in which he hit 36 triples.
caption: Sam Crawford and Ty Cobb, the top two players in MLB history in triples
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