Trea Turner knows better than most what it takes to hit for a cycle. The key, he says, is quite a bit of good luck.
Turner hit his second career cycle, Stephen Strasburg earned his major league-leading 13th win and the Washington Nationals routed the Colorado Rockies 11-1 Tuesday night.
Turner led off the first inning with homer, singled in the second and tripled leading off the fifth. After grounding into a double play in the sixth, he doubled home a run during Washington’s eight-run seventh.
“Didn’t screw it up this time,” Turner said. “Had a chance earlier in the year to do it and needed a single and didn’t do it.