When a hitter watches the ball fly off his bat into the outfield seats can he stop at third base to settle for a triple? Had Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts been allowed to do so he would have hit for the cycle for the first time in his career.
Betts finished the game 4-for-5 at the plate with a pair of home runs to go along with a single and a double. Only that elusive triple prevented him from becoming the first Red Sox hitter since Brock Holt in 2015 to hit for the cycle.