Let's talk about the cycle for a minute.
Shohei Ohtani made history on Thursday in Tampa, Florida, when he became first-ever Japanese player to hit for the cycle (single, double, triple and home run) in MLB. Ohtani already gets a ton of attention from Japanese media, but this set off a particular flurry on Friday and Saturday in Japan, in addition to the praise he was already getting from the baseball world at large.
He deserved it, of course, even if the cycle isn't really the most important thing when you get right down to it. If a team managed only those four hits (in an extreme example) there would only be one run on the board. Still, it's fun to see a player do it. If nothing else, you're watching someone have a really, really good day.
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