As the shepherd of baseball’s biggest outfield, Charlie Blackmon regularly sees line drives turn into a game of fetch. At Coors Field, the outfield fences see more action than the party deck.
So when the Rockies’ center fielder watched as right fielder Carlos Gonzalez chased down Trea Turner’s hard-hit triple down the line in the seventh inning Tuesday night, he had witnessed what has become a not-as-seldom achieved feat at the ballpark at 20th and Blake.
Turner’s triple gave the Nationals shortstop a cycle, a hit to each base — just the third cycle in Washington’s history and the ninth overall including the years before the Montreal Expos moved to D.