Shohei Ohtani and Jake Bauers hit cycles on back-to-back days

Jun 15 2019 by McCovey Chronicles

 

It was a good week for people who like stuffed box scores.

Baseball loves its clean, semi-arbitrary marks of success. It loves hitters who sport an average of .300, even though that doesn’t really tell us much (but is irrefutably a good thing). It loves pitchers who keep their ERA under 3.00, even though the same aforementioned qualifier applies.

It loves no-hitters, which are a sign of greatness, even though it often passes over much greater performances in the process, because...

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