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Kirby Puckett Hits for the Cycle, 1986

DateAug 1, 1986
ScoreAthletics 1, Twins 10
TypeCycle

Kirby Puckett hit for the cycle for the Minnesota Twins against the Oakland Athletics on August 1, 1986: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The Minnesota Twins won 10–1.

The game was played at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis. The announced attendance was 14,855. The game took 2h 25m. It was a night game.

It was the only time Kirby Puckett managed it. Curt Young started for the Oakland Athletics. Ken Kaiser umpired behind the plate. It is the last of two cycles the archive records that season.

Key figures

Hits for the Cycle

Sources

  1. Retrosheet, MIN198608010
  2. Retrosheet event files — event:MIN198608010
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