In case you weren’t tuned into the Diamondbacks Cardinals game or the Mariners Rangers game (which makes complete sense, unless theres an undying affiliation to any of those teams there’s absolutely no reason to watch either slugfest) history was made in the form of one of the more rare feats in baseball.  The cycle.  But it didn’t just happen once when Diamondback Stephen Drew went 5-5 and accomplished it, it also happened in Arlington when Adrian Beltre made the improbable occur in a win over the Rangers.  This was the first time two players had hit for the cycle on the same day since 1920.  To put this into perspective, the San Diego Padres have never had someone hit for the cycle in their team history.

Lets first talk about Stephen Drew.  In the midst of a pennant race race to see who sucks less the D-backs sent a message to their young shortstop by acquiring David Eckstein, a versatile utility man who actually sucks at baseball but tries really hard and continues to earn starting jobs because of it.  I think Drew got the message.

Over to Arlington where the Mariners and Rangers were playing to see who had to buy the other team slurpees after the game.  The first thing that came to me after looking at the box score (and fist pumping because Josh Hamilton had done some more van dammage for my fantasy team) was Beltre legging out a triple.  How?  He’s slow as hell.  And you mean to tell me that Adrian Beltre actually tried?  There must be some sort of incentive in his contract.