{"id":794217,"date":"2026-07-11T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:50:08","slug":"canadas-tristan-peters-hits-for-cycle-vs-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794217\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Tristan Peters hits for cycle vs. Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/chicago-white-sox\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"chicago-white-sox\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> centre-fielder hit for the cycle on Friday, becoming the first Canadian since 2011 to achieve the feat.<\/p>\n<p>Peters, 26, checked off each leg of the cycle in four trips to the plate, starting with a double in the bottom of the third inning.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the Winkler, Man., native collected a single in the fourth and a 410-foot homer in the seventh before racing around the bases for a two-out triple later in the inning as Chicago batted around against the A&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I hit the ball, I was thinking three,\u201d he said of the three-bagger.<\/p>\n<p>Peters became the first White Sox player to\u00a0hit for the cycle\u00a0since Jose Abreu on Sept. 9, 2017, and the fifth in major league history to do it from the No. 9 spot in the batting order. The way he did it was even more rare.<\/p>\n<p>According to MLB, Peters became just the third player since 1961 to get two hits in the same inning to complete the cycle. The others were Felix Pie in 2009 and Jim Ray Hart in 1950.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s No. 1, for sure,\u201d Peters said when asked where it ranked among his career achievements. \u201cThat was incredible. It\u2019s awesome, amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed hitting outfielder has been a revelation this season for the White Sox. Friday&#8217;s explosion only continued that, boosting his slash line on the year to .303\/.357\/.484 and giving him 20 doubles, three triples and six homers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I keep getting hits, I&#8217;ll keep it on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, after a 4-for-4 showing and a 14-1 win, Peters might be more likely to sign up for the mic&#8217;d up experience the next time it comes around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s impressive, there haven\u2019t been too many of those,\u201d Chicago manager Will Venable said. \u201cThose are pretty rare, and Tristan has done such a good job of playing the right way \u2014 putting swings on good pitches to hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surprising Chicago remained atop the AL Central, percentage points ahead of Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Peters was stranded at second after his two-out double to centre in the third. In the fifth, his run-scoring single to right made it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>In the seventh, Peters followed Kyle Teel&#8217;s leadoff walk with a two-run homer. His triple drove in the last run of an eight-run inning in which the White Sox sent 12 men to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the third major leaguer to hit for the cycle this season, joining the Cubs&#8217; Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Phillies&#8217; Bryce Harper.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Brewers catcher George Kottaras was the last Canadian to hit for the cycle, putting together a monster game on Sept. 3, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from the Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago White Sox centre-fielder hit for the cycle on Friday, becoming the first Canadian since 2011 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-794217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}