David Wright hit two doubles early in the Mets game against the Phillies, then picked up a triple and a home run. If he had stopped at first on one of the doubles, he could have hit for the cycle. His hitting, and another great outing by Matt Harvey, gave the Mets an 8-0 victory.

It seems to me there should be a list of pseudo cycles, ones in which the batter got a hit with an extra base he didn’t need. So two doubles, a triple and a home run, a single, two triples, and a home run, or single, double or triple, and two home runs, at least one being inside the park. That’s a nice research project for someone with access to the Retrosheet data and the Tattersall home run list.