This Day In Baseball
History: September 11, 1997
It was on this date in 1997 that
New York Met’s first baseman (and former Toronto Blue Jay) John Olerud hit for
the cycle in the Mets’ 9-5 win over the Montreal Expos at Shea Stadium. Olerud,
never one to be know for being fleet of foot, still managed to accomplished the
feat in five at-bats, while scoring two runs and adding five RBIs.
In the first inning, Olerud got
his first hit (the double), and drove in the first run of the game before
scoring himself to give the Mets a 2-0 lead. In the bottom of the third, he got
his single and eventually scored to increase the New York lead to 3-0. He would
then come to bat in the fifth, with the score being 3-1, and flew out to centre
field.
In the seventh inning, Olerud
would hit his home run, going back-to-back with Edgardo Alfonso and making the
score 6-1. Montreal trimmed the lead to 6-5 with a four-run eighth, but the
Mets loaded the bases in the bottom half of the inning when Olerud came to bat
again. All three runners came in to score when he tripled, giving him his cycle
and the Mets the 9-5 lead.
As I mentioned, Olerud wasn’t
blessed with speed and that was his only triple of the season, and one of only
13 that he accumulated over his 17-year career.
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