Hitting for the cycle is one of the rarest individual accomplishments in baseball, requiring a player to record a single, double, triple, and home run all in the same game. What makes it so difficult is that a hitter needs a combination of nearly everything—power to hit the home run, enough speed to stretch a ball into a triple, consistent contact to collect four different types of hits, and usually at least four or five opportunities at the plate. MLB records show just how uncommon it is: according to the Elias Sports Bureau, there have been only 354 cycles in MLB history, including the postseason, despite well over a century of games being played. Even more impressive is a natural cycle, where the hitter records the single, double, triple, and home run in that exact order. Baseball Reference notes that hitting for the cycle is roughly comparable to throwing a no-hitter in terms of rarity, which is why simply getting within one hit—especially needing the notoriously difficult triple—...