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Kemp's cycle a first for Padres, and a joy

Statistically speaking, had the ball cleared the fence, Kemp would have had two homers in the game and five RBIs.

Instead, he got a triple and completed the first cycle in the 7,444-game history of the Padres. Through the first 46 seasons of the franchise's history, no player -- including Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn -- had notched a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game.

In the history of Major League Baseball, there had only been 308 cycles. That's an average of only 10 per team -- and remember baseball was a 16-team game until 1960.