Danielle Gibson
Arkansas Razorbacks
Hit for Rare HR Cycle
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Writer Dave Kovaleski put it this way: “In her team’s 15-3 win over Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, (Arkansas) Razorbacks sophomore (Danielle) Gibson became the first player in NCAA Division I softball history to hit for a rare type of cycle — the home run cycle — according to the Razorbacks’ athletics website. That means she hit solo, 2-run and 3-run blasts, plus a grand slam, in the same game.”
Rare? Beyond rare is more like it. In fact “unheard of” is the phrase that best frames it on the phenom-stage. As a college softball event, it’s never happened before in a single game, although we are now johnny-come-lately aware of the fact that it has happened once to another female college softball player, but that girl needed both games of a DH to get it done on the same day. Gibson’s heroics were hardly stretched. She got it done ~ one homer per inning each in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th frames for the 4 homers and its 10 RBIs.
This kind of very special HR cycle has never occurred in big league baseball, according to my phenom-swarm expert authorities.
Flying off the bat of Danielle Gibson
There Goes One of the Four Taking Flight,
In Danielle Gibson’s case, she hit a 2-run homer in the 1st; a 3-run homer in the 2nd; a Grand Slam homer in the 3rd; and then finished the circuit job with a solo homer in the 4th. ~ Maybe next time she’ll get it in perfect solo, 2, 3. and 4 runs order in alignment over the first four innings.
Check out these two links on the event with your own eyes.
https://www.westernjournal.com/wc/watch-college-sophomore-makes-history-hits-hr-cycle/
Rounding 3rd,
Heading for Home,
She’ll Hit Three More,
For a Full House Roam!
And thank you, Mike McCroskey, for being the first to call this rather formidable accomplishment to my attention.
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Bill McCurdy
Principal Writer, Editor, Publisher
Houston, Baseball, & Other Musings.
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