Wally Westlake Hits for the Cycle, 1948
Wally Westlake hit for the cycle for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Brooklyn Dodgers on July 30, 1948: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The Pittsburgh Pirates won 10–5.
The game was played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. The announced attendance was 31,278. The game took 2h 16m. It was a night game.
Wally Westlake did it twice in all. Ralph Branca started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Larry Goetz umpired behind the plate. It is the second of three cycles the archive records that season.
Key figures
Hits for the Cycle
Sources
- Retrosheet, BRO194807300
- Retrosheet event files — event:BRO194807300
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