For the sixth time in the 2009 baseball season, a batter has hit for the cycle. This time it was Troy Tulowitzki. Led by Tulowitzki hitting for the cycle, the Colorado Rockies beat the Chicago Cubs by a final count of 11-5.
To complete the cycle, Tulowitzki hit a seventh inning triple. He previously had a home run in the first inning, a second inning single and a fourth inning double. He added another hit in the eighth inning to finish the game 5-for-5 with two runs and seven RBIs.
Although he struggled earlier in the season, Tulowitzki has been especially hitting …read more

A couple years ago, Troy Tulowitzki was a rookie phenom for the Colorado Rockies. Now, the shortstop who led the Rockies to the 2007 World Series has been benched indefinitely due to a hitting slump. The 24-year-old out of Long Beach State is hitting just .167 with three homers and five RBIs in 54 at-bats.
As a rookie, Tulowitzki played 155 games, had a batting average of .291 with 24 homers, 99 RBIs and 104 runs. As a sophomore, his numbers began dropping — hitting .263 with eight homers, 46 RBIs and 48 runs.
Hit-less in his last 19 at-bats, the Rockies …read more

It’s not quite as cool as Troy Tulowitzki’s unassisted triple play last year or (cool name alert) Asdrubal Cabrera’s one-man show earlier this month, but the San Francisco Giants‘ 5-4-3 groundball triple play still rates high on the Snazzy Fielding Scale and gets a Barry Bonds-sized gold star. Jose Castillo, Ray Durham, and John Bowker had the honors.
The Giants smoked the infield during the eighth inning of their game against the San Diego Padres. They lost the game in the 13th (7-3), but aw heck . . . this is what made the newsreel highlights (21s):

Second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera of the Cleveland Indians turned an unassisted triple play—only the 14th in MLB history.  (Curious about lucky #13? That was Troy Tulowitzki of the Colorado Rockies last year).
Before we show you the video from the other day, we want to note two things.
1. “Asdrubal” is one of the coolest first names ev-ah, and J.K. Rowling is probably going to use it in a book some day.
2. We find it amusing that Cabrera is Johnny-on-the-spot enough to make an unassisted triple play but not swift enough to remember to keep the ball.

Blink and you’ll miss it: a one-man triple play.
As we scour the spring training reports and can’t wait for the Red Sox to dominate in 2008 and make the Yankees look like fools prepare for the upcoming baseball season, we thought this 2007 gem would whet the appetites of baseball lovers near and far. 
Troy Tulowitzki of the Colorado Rockies made it look easy. But as the announcer says here (36s), the unassisted wonder-play has only happened 13 times in MLB history.