The Challenge – “Hitting For The Cycle”
In baseball, hitting for the cycle is the accomplishment of one batter hitting a single, a double, a triple and a home run in the same game. Collecting the hits in that order is known as a “natural cycle”. Cycles are uncommon in Major League Baseball (MLB), and have occurred 294 times since the first by Curry Foley in 1882. The cycle is roughly as common as a no-hitter (272 occurrences in MLB history); it has been called “one of the rarest” and “most difficult feats” in baseball. Based on 2009 offensive levels, the probability of an average MLB player hitting for a cycle against an average team in a game is approximately 0.00590%; this corresponds to about 2.5 cycles in a 162-game season with 30 teams.
Now you’re asking yourself how this pertains to Geocaching. Well here’s the challenge: In order to qualify for this cache you must complete the following.
1. One must find the following, on a SINGLE day of caching. Find and log 4 caches, 3 caches, 2 caches and 1 cache. Full details below.
a. Home Run – Find and log 4 caches of one cache type.
i. The following cache types do not qualify for the home run: Traditionals, Events and CITO’s.
b. Triple – Find and log 3 caches of one cache type.
i. The following cache types do not qualify for the triple: Traditionals, Events and CITO’s.
c. Double – Find and log 2 caches on one cache type.
i. The following cache types do not qualify for the double: Traditionals, Events and CITO’s.
d. Single – Find and log 1 cache type.
i. These cache types qualify for the single: Traditional, Virtual, Letterbox, Mystery, Multi or Earthcache.
e. All caches must be found on the same day to qualify for this cache. You will have at least 10 cache finds on the chosen day.
f. Events, CITO’s, Benchmarks and Geocaching Challenges do not qualify for this challenge.
2. Once you “Hit For The Cycle”, you must do one of the following to show you qualify for this challenge.
a. Provide documentation showing your found caches on the given day. You can do this one of three ways.
i. Create a bookmark of your finds (Preferred method).
ii. List each of your finds in your log making sure you provide the following for each geocache that you found: GC Number, Cache Name, Icon Type and Date found.
iii. Create a screen capture or jpg image showing your finds for the given day.
The difficulty rating is based on meeting the challenge; the cache find should be pretty quick and easy. Enjoy your hunt and the challenge!