The cycle: Am I alone in this opinion?

bigpern23 · Jul 2, 2007

CentralIllinoisan said:

Del_B_Vista said:

The comparisons of no-hitters to cycles misses one point: each game has two players with a chance to throw a no-hitter and 18 with a chance to hit the cycle.
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Well said.

So, each season ... there are 4,860 opportunities for a pitcher or team to have a no-hitter. But there are 43,740 positions in the batting order each season.

That makes hitting for the cycle a much more rare feat ... but more rare does not equal more difficult.
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The only thing you're not accounting for here is that for each of those 4,860 opportunities for a pitcher or a team to get a no-hitter, there are at least 27 opportunities for someone to break it up. So during the course of a season, there are at least 131,220 opportunities to break it up (excluding, of course, walks, errors, HBPs, etc.).

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