Cycle of Life (Not Really)

Moi Say Moi back in 2017:

Someone needs to ask Elias Sports if any baseball team has every started a game with its first 4 batters hitting for a collective cycle.

And of course just like everything & everybody else in the world right now I said why don't I ask my bff ChatGPT in 2025 what the answer is & lookey here:

• There has never been a case where a team’s first four batters in a game collectively hit for the cycle

• However, there has been one remarkable exception involving the Seattle Mariners, but it’s of a different sort: back in August 9, 2018, the Mariners became the first team in the live-ball era (since 1920) to have its first four hitters in a game produce a reverse cycle—starting with a home run, followed by a triple, then a double, and capped with a single—all in the first inning off Justin Verlander.

When I started this post my point was gonna be "OMG something even CRAZIER happened!" but I guess the truth is the odds of a collective cycle going forwards are exactly the same as a collective cycle going backwards, so 🤷‍♂️.