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Rivera Shows Off, Hits for Cycle Thursday, July 10th , 1913 Tomás Rivera of the Yauco Napoleonicos touched all the bases at El Marenguito in his team's 19-3 victory over San German, hitting for the cycle. He teed off on Hermosos pitching, collecting 1 single, 1 double, 1 triple and 1 home run. The feat is rare in 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 and a favorable fall of the ball. "The hardest part was the triple," Rivera confessed after the game. "A lot has to go right. It's real easy to get greedy trying to stretch a double and get thrown out. It's really hard to get a three-bagger." He finished the big day with 4 hits in 6 at-bats, 7 runs batted in, 3 runs scored -- and a place in the record books. Tomás Rivera tripled in the 1st, walked in a run in the 1st, struck out in the 3rd, hit a two-run double in the 4th, hit a two-run home run off Hackett Brown in the 5th, hit a two-run single in the 6th and struck out in the 8th. This season, Rivera is batting .242 with 29 hits and 3 home runs. He has scored 17 times and has 17 runs batted in. View Boxscore View Game Log |
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