{"id":785940,"date":"2026-08-23T02:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/785940\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T02:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T02:27:14","slug":"reds-bleday-hits-for-cycle-in-1st-4-at-bats-against-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/785940\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds&#8217; Bleday hits for cycle in 1st 4 at-bats against Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jj-bleday-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Bleday<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> hit for the cycle Saturday night in his first four at-bats against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The Cincinnati left fielder doubled in the first inning, tripled in the third and singled in the fourth. He homered to right on the first pitch from Arizona\u2019s Zack Littell in the sixth inning, giving the Reds an 8-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The home run was Bleday&#8217;s 21st of the season, topping his previous career high of 20 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/oakland-athletics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Bleday is the first Cincinnati player to hit for a cycle since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/elly-de-la-cruz-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elly De La Cruz<\/a> on June 23, 2023, against Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">There were three previous cycles in the majors this year \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/pete-crow-armstrong-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chicago-cubs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cubs<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/philadelphia-phillies-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phillies<\/a>\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/bryce-harper-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Harper<\/a> and the most recent one, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/tristan-peters-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Peters<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White Sox<\/a> on July 10. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">See AP\u2019s full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 JJ Bleday of the Cincinnati Reds hit for the cycle Saturday night in his first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[22,537,5,1207,24,49,50,1177,1952,19,4,3226,35,25,30019],"class_list":["post-785940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-bryce-harper","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-jj-bleday","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-tristan-peters"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117142463674575073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}