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In Baseball , a player hits for the cycle when he hits a Single , a Double , a Triple and a Home Run in the same game, though not necessarily in that order. Collecting the hits in that order is known as a '''natural cycle'''. The feat is rare in Major League Baseball as it requires a game of no fewer than four hits, and the unusual combination of a home run, which requires a Batter to hit for some power, and a triple, which requires a batter to have both speed on the Basepaths and a favorable fall of the ball. Thus, hitting for the cycle demonstrates excellence in three of the five "tools" of baseball (see Five-tool Player ). The accomplishment is held in high enough esteem that players needing only a single to complete the cycle have been known to hold up at first base on balls hit in the alley. There are only three current major league teams that, to date, have not had a player hit for the cycle – the San Diego Padres , Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Devil Rays . CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PLAYERS WHO HAVE HIT FOR THE CYCLE Listed below are the 276 occurrences of players hitting for the cycle in Major League Baseball (players with multiple occurrences denoted in parentheses, natural cycles in bold): NUMBER OF CYCLES BY TEAM PLAYERS THAT HAVE HIT FOR 2 OR MORE CYCLES STATISTICS
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