I'd rather have the second home runs, the extra base, the extra run, the extra rbi.  The cycle in an indication of an interesting day at bat, nothing more.

Worth a fine, and three game suspension (reduced to two on appeal).

That particular brand of hitting for the cycle would be unique. 

This year's Rockies club reminds me of Milwaukee's 2002 club, so poorly poorly mismanaged by Dave Lopes...and Bud Black is pretty blameless, I'd say.

Of further interest, Trea Turner happens to be one of only five people in MLB history to have hit for the cycle three times. If he ever does it again, he will be the first to hit for a cycle of cycles. Would that have any bearing on your decision?

That's a cool stat.

Baseball the way it was meant to be played..........Jim Maloney going for a no-hitter, with a pitch count of "who cares?"  'Only' 60 years ago in Wrigley............this is spellbinding.  Just about everything about this is wonderful -- the announcers, the Hamm's beer commercials, the uniforms, the score updates of other games, etc., etc., etc. Gosh this is good..........watched the whole thing..........and today's version of the game is simply worse.  Lots of great comments, too:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XN2OiRIaC10

Ah yes, the memory of the base-running pitcher donning the thick jacket, in 90 degree heat.  

And Hamms is acceptably tasty, if beer drinker demands economy.

And Baby Ruth bars were tasty, as I recall. Peanuts, caramel, covered in chocolate's what I remember of it...

Reds' manager Dick Sisler, son of HOFer George.

8.2 WAR for Maloney that year, dominating.

Lawrence Butler...love this CF's D...wow!

Wilyer Abreu hit a grand slam and an inside the park HR (as two separate hits) yesterday. It's a rare feat, having occured only six times in MLB history. The last time was Roger Maris in 1958.  

Another kinda cool stat....

I see that happened at Fenway.  Too bad very few fans were in attendance because of the outrageous ticket prices.....😁🙄

The Miami Marlins are currently one-half game ahead of the Atlanta Braves in the NL East...who saw that coming back in April or May?

The Blue Jays are in first place in the second half of the regular season for the first time since 2016...take that, Yankees!

Former MLB closer Bobby Jenks dies at 44...he had three very good seasons, and was on WS winner Sox team! Lost battle with stomach cancer...

Obscure All-Stars...(I recognized the three Brewers).

[Turnbow was a phenom for half a season, I recall his 94mph slider, uninhabitable.[

I want 1B Andrew Vaughn to hit the ball like Gorman or Benji did.

Yelich needs to hit the ball again like he did '18/19, like Coop did for an impressive stretch...(he was .350 when Brett went .390).

Like he's 5'5" with a 45" waistline, and forearms like Popeye.

Yeah, a three run shot in his first AB, on a ball above the zone.

Machado has 2000 hits, super-impressive...but he should still apologize to Jesús.

Kershaw vs Miz. Yeah, baby!

Whoa. Ohtani puts the 0-2 pitch in orbit. 

Good outing for the rookie. 6 innings, 12 K, 4 H, 1 BB, 1 ER. 

Walking Ohtani with the bases loaded can work, like this guy did to Barry Bonds.

Dennis Biddle...attending tonight's game in Milwaukee versus Nats.

Judge steals HR from PCA...oooooooooh.

CASUAL FAN NOTE: National's LF James Wood is new superstar in The Show...(main piece in Soto trade).

Yelich is hitting the ball like he did seven years ago (MVP-quality bat...

Raleigh hit two dingers tonight. 

Amazon Prime has the game. Until tonight, I did not know that he was a switch hitter. Most of his HRs are from the left, but both tonight were from the right. 

Vaughn is homering the way the Sox saw when he was taken third from Cal baseball...as Milwaukee hoped, like Gorman.

This date, 1979, in Comiskey:

Disco Inferno:

https://apnews.com/today-in-history/july-12

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcua9XzKVas&pp=ygUNZGlzY28gaW5mZXJubw%3D%3D

addendum:  There's a very much happenin' 10+ minutes 'live' version of this, but I'm not linking it because that takes things just a bit too far from baseball - even 'this date' 1979 baseball.  But easy to find.  Unclear whether those dance moves on the long version were 'borrowed' from mrbuck, or vice versa.  And of course the same could be said of some of those on the above-linked version.

Murph does his postgame interviews at home with three of his (I assume) grandchildren in attendance...they're all silent.

Byron Burton of the Twins has been named to the All Star Game, and today was his bobble head day. He gave the fans a tip of the hat by hitting for the cycle. 

So will that be a new "manufactured stat":  Who was the first player to hit for the cycle on their bobblehead day? 🙄

That kind of information used to be called trivia, but you are correct that such silly things are making their way into the record books. 

I bought Guinness three or four times...I recall some dude named Scott, late 70s, but now this guy's habit.

Speaking of trivia: Jose Altuve (246) has passed Hack Wilson (244) as having the most HR by a player under 5’6”. 

I always liked Ron Cey and Freddie Patek, and Joe Morgan was my favorite.

Respect to the Cardinal (and Brave) fans I see in attendance at Busch Stadium, after like a four hour rain delay...maybe fifteen hundred still there...

The Crew: playing .700 baseball for the last two months, bottoming out at four under .500.

The Marlin's outfield in 2016 had left to right: Marcell Ozuna Christian Yelich Mike Stanton.

I heard it was Mickey Mantle who called him Charlie Hustle first.

His mildly strained hammy need special massage.