the last time a player hit for the cycle was on september 9, 2017.
when was the last time a player hit for the cycle?
september 9 , 2017
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in baseball, completing the cycle is the accomplishment of hitting a single, a double, a triple, and a home run in the same game. collecting the hits in that order is known as a "natural cycle", which has occurred five times in nippon professional baseball (npb). the cycle itself is rare in npb, occurring 74 times since fumio fujimura's first cycle during the single league era in 1948. in terms of frequency, the cycle is roughly as common as a no-hitter (90 occurrences in npb history); "baseball digest" calls it "one of the rarest feats in baseball". hitting for the cycle was not recognized in japanese professional baseball until former major league baseball (mlb) player daryl spencer made a remark about it after hitting for the cycle with the hankyu braves in 1965. of the 12 current npb teams, only the tohoku rakuten golden eagles have never had at least one player hit for the cycle.
list of nippon professional baseball players to hit for the cycle