Wally Westlake Hits for the Cycle, 1949
DateJun 14, 1949
TeamsBoston Braves @ Pittsburgh Pirates
ScoreBraves 3, Pirates 4
Venue Forbes Field
TypeCycle
Wally Westlake hit for the cycle for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Boston Braves on June 14, 1949: a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. The Pittsburgh Pirates won 4–3.
The game was played at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. The announced attendance was 29,639. The game took 2h 33m. It was a night game.
Wally Westlake did it twice in all. Bob Hall started for the Boston Braves. Frank Dascoli umpired behind the plate. It is the first of three cycles the archive records that season.
Key figures
Hits for the Cycle
Sources
- Retrosheet, PIT194906140
- Retrosheet event files — event:PIT194906140
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