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Chris Speier Hits for the Cycle, 1988

DateJul 9, 1988
ScoreCardinals 2, Giants 21
TypeCycle

Chris Speier hit for the cycle for the San Francisco Giants against the St. Louis Cardinals on July 9, 1988: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The San Francisco Giants won 21–2.

The game was played at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The announced attendance was 34,666. The game took 2h 53m. It was a day game under sunny skies, at 80 degrees.

Chris Speier did it twice in all. John Tudor started for the St. Louis Cardinals. Mark Hirschbeck umpired behind the plate. It is the second of three cycles the archive records that season.

Key figures

Hits for the Cycle

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, SFN198807090
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:SFN198807090
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