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Miami Marlins rookie shortstop Xavier Edwards became the third player in Predominant League Baseball to hit for the cycle this season, conducting the feat in Sunday’s 6–2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.
Edwards started his breakout day with a flourish, hitting the first pitch of the game for a home bustle off Tobias Myers. That used to be the first home bustle of his main-league career (and handiest his 14th in educated baseball).
He adopted that with a double within the fifth inning and a triple within the seventh old to finishing the cycle by beating out a ninth-inning infield single. Add in a third-inning chase, and Edwards reached inappropriate 5 instances Sunday.
admire seeing Xavier Edwards getting frequent bustle as MIA’s day to day shortstop — he’s a fun player and personality that desires to be a fixture engaging forward
now hitting .379/.462/.494 in 105 PA and accurate accomplished the second cycle in Marlins franchise historypic.twitter.com/jYjfIamOd5 https://t.co/zbxUjJKUPu
— Céspedes Family BBQ (@CespedesBBQ) July 28, 2024
Edwards is the third player — and second rookie — to hit for the cycle this MLB season, following the Texas Rangers’ Wyatt Langford and Yordan Álvarez of the Houston Astros. Edwards is additionally the second Marlins player to attain so, joining Luis Arraez in an unfamiliar club for the franchise.
After the 4-for-4 day, Edwards is batting .379 with a .956 OPS. In June, he took over as Miami’s starting shortstop from the disappointing Tim Anderson, who used to be batting .214 with a .463 OPS. Anderson used to be designated for project in July, making Edwards the clear starter. He became the crew’s leadoff hitter after Jazz Chisholm Jr. used to be traded to the Fresh York Yankees on Saturday.
Unruffled a rookie after having fun with 30 games with Miami final season, Edwards started this one year on the injured checklist on account of a foot infection. He performed 26 games for Triple-A Jacksonville old to rejoining the Marlins.
Edwards used to be the San Diego Padres’ 2018 first-spherical selection (No. 38 total) out of North Broward Preparatory College in Coconut Creek, Florida. He used to be traded to the Tampa Bay Rays in 2019 and performed two seasons in that group old to being dealt to the Marlins in 2022.