
Welcome to the Friday edition of The Cooler, where the weather is about to get really dumb for a while. Let's get to it:
*The traditional definition of hitting for the cycle in baseball is amassing a single, double, triple and home run in the same game. Only 11 players have done it in Twins history — including Jorge Polanco, who accomplished the feat earlier this season.
But perhaps the modern day cycle in baseball is this: A batter doing 1) something good at the plate; 2) celebrating in a way that irks the opposing team; 3) Getting thrown at in his next at-bat; 4) The other team getting mad when suffering the consequences of the obvious beaning attempt.
To that end, congratulations are in order for top Twins prospect Royce Lewis for his modern day cycle with Ft. Myers on Thursday.
Here's the sequence of events, thanks to video tweeted by Parker Hageman:
A few things:
1 I love the calm home plate umpire, who matter-of-factly ejects both the Bradenton pitcher and manager and then attempts to de-escalate the situation while the manager is yelling at him by simply turning his back and walking the other way.
2 Unwritten rules of baseball are dumb, but maybe Lewis doesn't do pushups at second base next time?