Players who hit for the Cycle 3 times in their career

[kairos12]

Only three players have done it:

Babe Herman
Bob Meusel
Adrian Beltre

[Ohiogal]

1. THREE times!

Hard enough to do it ONCE!

[brush]

2. How about players who hit 4 homeruns in one game?

[PBC_Democrat]

3. I thought there would be more ...

I expected Pete Rose and Ricky Henderson to be on the list.

[JDC]

5. There is a list of all cycles on the wiki bellow:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_to_hit_for_the_cycle

Super rare, more so than I realized.

[Brother Buzz]

6. And I would have expected Willie Mays to have been on the list, too, yet he never hit for cycle

But in lieu of that, he was credited with a most impossible record: Hitting a home home run in the most different innings.


Inning Date Pitcher Team
1 5-28-1951 Warren Spahn Boston
2 6-6-1951 Willie Ramsdell Cincinnati
3 4-18-1954 Carl Erskine Brooklyn
4 6-27-1951 Don Newcombe Brooklyn
5 8-30-1951 Vern Law Pittsburgh
6 6-23-1951 Turk Lown Chicago
7 6-18-1951 Joe Presko St. Louis
8 6-17-1951 (1G) Howie Pollet St. Louis
9 7-22-1951 (1G) Ken Raffensberger Cincinnati
10 6-22-1951 Dutch Leonard Chicago
11 7-4-1955 (2G) Lino Donoso Pittsburgh
12 6-4-1955 Warren Hacker Chicago
13 7-3-1951 Jocko Thompson Philadelphia
14 4-30-1954 Warren Hacker Chicago
15 9-27-1968 Ted Abernathy Cincinnati
16 7-26-1963 Warren Spahn Milwaukee

Note: Willie's walk off home run in the sixteenth inning was a mire footnote to the most spectacular pitching dual in history:


Warren Spahn and Juan Marichal faced off in a 16-inning classic July 2, 1963...It's the last time two pitchers threw for 15 scoreless innings in one game...7 future Hall of Famers were in the game that day, 4 from the Giants and 3 from the Braves...The 4 hour and 10 minute game ended in the bottom of the 16th when Willie Mays delivered a solo shot over the left field fence...

Oh, Willie's first MLB home run was off of Spahn, too

[JDC]

4. John Reilly also in 1890. The first to hit 3