Adrian Beltre made history on Monday night. He becomes the first player to hit for three career cycles since Babe Herman did it with the Cincinnati Reds in 1933. As if that weren’t enough, Beltre connected on the four hits in the first five innings of the night. The Texas Rangers third baseman picked up a triple in the first inning, a double in the second, a single in the third and capped things off with a solo home run in the fifth.
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All three of Beltre’s cycles have come at the Rangers’ ballpark, two for the home team and his first when he was playing for Seattle on September 1, 2008. Fiers struck out six. Beltre went 4 for 5 in the Rangers 12-9 victory over the Houston Astros. As it stands, he is three hits shy of 2,700.
Beltre may be having his worst offensive season since his injury-shortened 2009 campaign, but his cycle Monday night was a nice reminder of his enormous talent.
Arizona in 2012 was the last team with two cycles in the same season.
Scott Kazmir is gone to the Houston Astros, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate what he did with the Oakland Athletics for his last calendar month with the A’s, earning the American League’s pitcher of the month award for July.
Astros: OF George Springer is traveling with the team and doing workouts that don’t involve the right wrist he fractured July 1. Corporan was sore when he took Sunday off after consecutive games.
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The Rangers now sit seven games back in the AL West, behind the Astros and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
