The concept of cycles is familiar to most fans, even if the event isn’t particularly popular. Players collect singles, doubles, triples and home runs in the same game.
But have you heard of the home run cycle? Before Wednesday night, as far as historians know, it happened only once in the history of modern professional baseball at the alliance level.
Now it happened twice. Chandler Redmond of the Springfield, Missouri Cardinals, a class AA affiliate of St. Louis, hit his four home runs in his one game on Wednesday. But what makes it even more unusual is that his day included solo shots, two- and three-run home runs, and a grand slam. home run cycle.
According to Major League Baseball, the only time a player hit a home run cycle was in 1998, when Tyrone Horn of the Arkansas Travelers, who was also a Class AA affiliate of the Cardinals at the time, hit it in a road game against the Sun. Antonio.
As well as a home run cycle, Redmond’s big day included a run-scoring single, going 5-6 on the night. And he hit four straight homers in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth innings. As one would expect when one man claims he had 11 RBIs, the Cardinals beat the host Amarillo He Sodd his Poodles 21-4 to win the game.
Redmond said he knew about the home run cycle and was thinking about it.
“I probably had a little bit of an idea about the cycle after I hit the Grand Slam. But then I brushed it off really quickly. I was like, ‘This is the second time.'” he told reporters“But when I go in there and hit a solo shot, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I can do that.'” I said, ‘Oh my God, everything is lined up, you can do this.
he didn’t miss
The home run cycle has never happened at the major league level. 18 players hit 4 home runs in a gamebut the baserunners never aligned perfectly correctly for the home run cycle.
In fact, only two of the four-run games involved a grand slam. 1993 Cardinals Mark his Whiten and his 2017 Reds Scooter his Jennette. Jennette slams for two runs, he shoots, hits a solo homer, and has 10 RBIs.In a way, Whitton went too far: He slammed, 2 3-run shots, 2-run his blast, and 12 RBIs finished him off the day.
A four-home run game itself is actually rarer than a perfect game (23 times in major league history by today’s definition). So, even in an era of home runs, don’t expect a home run cycle in the majors to occur often or not at all.
Redmond, 25, was drafted in the 32nd round of 2019 by the Cardinals from Gardner Webb College in Boiling Springs, North Carolina.
It remains to be seen if his big night will kick off his quest for the majors. , and never exceeded class AAA while playing in South Korea.
