Who was the last MLB player to hit for the cycle? (2023)

Who was the last MLB player to hit for the cycle?

A natural cycle has been completed 14 times in modern MLB history, most recently by Gary Matthews Jr. of the Texas Rangers in 2006.

Arencibia became the 28th player in MLB history to hit a homer on the very first pitch to start a career. Arencibia was far from done, however. Arencibia would hit a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth and add a double and single along the way, leaving him just a triple shy of the cycle in his major league debut.

A home run cycle has never occurred in MLB, which has only had 18 instances of a player hitting four home runs in a game.

Hitting for multiple cycles in a career is one of the rarest feats in baseball. Only 29 Modern Era American or National League players have done it. Five of them have joined the group in the past five seasons: Trea Turner, Brock Holt, Christian Yelich, Freddie Freeman and Nolan Arenado.

Unassisted triple plays

The rarest type of triple play, and one of the rarest events of any kind in baseball, is for a single fielder to complete all three outs. There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.

Tony Gwynn was the fastest player in National League history to hit the 3,000 mark; he reached the mark in his 2,284th game.

1. Juan Marichal. On July 19, 1960, a 22-year-old from the Dominican Republic named Juan Marichal took the mound for the San Francisco Giants against the Philadelphia Phillies.

No estimate has ever been given for its length, although it is safe to say it was easily over 500 feet, and may have approached 600 feet. A tremendous blast by any standards. In a single game Mantle hit two homers that were longer than most major league players hit in a career!

What is the farthest baseball ever hit?

Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET!

Austin Hays added another accomplishment to the career-best year he is having in 2022. He hit for the "cycle" against the Washington Nationals in a 7-0 win on Wednesday night, becoming the sixth player in Orioles history (since 1954) to accomplish the feat.

Collecting the hits in that order is known as a "natural cycle". Cycles are rare in Major League Baseball (MLB), having occurred only 339 times, starting with Curry Foley in 1882.

There have been 23 perfect games in MLB history, with the first two coming just days apart all the way back in 1880 courtesy of Lee Richmond and John Ward.

Caruso set a record that might never be broken: he made all three outs in the inning, against three New Jersey pitchers. Caruso led off the inning by grounding out to third.

One such rarity is the immaculate inning. You've probably heard of it -- an immaculate inning is when a pitcher strikes out all three batters in an inning, on three pitches each. The immaculate inning used to be very rare -- there were none from 1929-52. But in 2019, there have been seven.

On May 31, 2019, Hicks nearly accomplished the feat again by throwing a 104.3 mph pitch on his final throw of the night. Hicks said he likes having the cachet of having thrown the fastest pitch in three different MLB seasons, doing so in 2018, '19 and '22.

There are currently only 3 players in MLB history who have hit 700 homers in their career (as of 2015). No player has ever hit 800 career home runs. Barry Bonds is currently the all-time leader with 762 home runs over his career. On July 13th, 1934, Babe Ruth became the charter member of the 700 home run club.

1) Barry Bonds: 762

Bonds' age-35 through -39 seasons that began the 21st century -- including his single-year record 73 homers in 2001, the year he knocked No. 500 -- is perhaps the most dominant stretch by any player.

Who hit a grand slam in first at-bat?

Five players hit a grand slam in their first Major League at-bat: Bill Duggleby (1898), Jeremy Hermida (2005), Kevin Kouzmanoff (2006), Daniel Nava (2010), and Jerar Encarnación (2022).

No true rookie has ever pitched a perfect game. Richmond and Robertson were both technically rookies, each having made a single appearance in a previous season. Two of the three most recent perfect-game pitchers—Wells and Johnson—were traded at the end of the seasons in which they accomplished the feat.

Shortest Home Run Ever Hit

Playing for a minor league team called the Minnesota Millers back in 1900, Andy Oyler hit the shortest home run in the history of the entire world. The home run traveled only 24 inches—that's right, two feet! On a rainy day in Minnesota, Oyler made solid contact and took off to first base.

Creamer, who spent most of his illustrious writing career with Sports Illustrated, wrote an article in 1956 that explains what we have lost. On May 30, 1956, Mickey Mantle came within a foot or two of hitting a ball out of Yankee Stadium.

Lou Gehrig, Yankees, June 3, 1932

Gehrig was the first AL player and the first in the modern era to hit four homers in a single contest during the Yankees' 20-13 win over the Athletics at Shibe Park.

Bob Feller: "Bullet Bob" or "The Heater from Van Meter"

Robert William Andrew Feller (November 3, 1918 – December 15, 2010), was the first flame-throwing pitcher to have modern equipment measure his fastball's velocity.

Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other player to have hit 700 or more is Babe Ruth with 714.

May 28, 1979: George Brett hits for the cycle with walk-off home run in 16th – Society for American Baseball Research.

Who has hit for the cycle 3 times?

Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers joined an exclusive club of players to hit for the cycle three times against the Cincinnati Reds.

Unassisted triple plays

The rarest type of triple play, and one of the rarest events of any kind in baseball, is for a single fielder to complete all three outs. There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.