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Saturday afternoon at Target Field was Byron Buxton Bobblehead Day, but Minnesota Twins fans were treated at another Buxton gift.
All-Star Outfielder hit the cycle against Pittsburgh Pirates and did it in magnificent fashion.
Buxton started it with a single at the bottom of the first as twins’ leadoff hits. During a six-run second round to Minnesota tripled he.
Once you get a triple so early, you’re on the cycle watch.
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Byron Buxton from Minnesota Twins celebrates a solo home ride to end the cycle when he rounds out the bases against Pittsburgh Pirates in the seventh lap on Target Field 12 July 2025 in Minneapolis. (David Berding/Getty Images)
Buxton then hit a soil rule double in the third round and put the pressure on the rest of the game.
In the fifth, Buxton got his fourth hit of the game, but it was a single. In the seventh he went to the record for the fifth and possibly final time. He quickly fell into a 0-2 hole, but it didn’t matter.
Buxton swung at an 80 km / h-bread ball cutting the lower part of the zone and he got it all. The ball traveled 427 meters into the Dead Center and left its bat at 106 km / h and the amount broke out.
It was the first cycle ever hit at Target Field, which opened in 2010, and the first cycle of a twin since 2019 when Jorge Polanco completed Bragden.
Harrison Bader, Left, from Minnesota Twins celebrates with Byron Buxton (25) after hitting a walk-off home drive against Tampa Bay Rays July 4, 2025 at Target Field in Minneapolis. (Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images)
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The last twin that hit the cycle at home was Michael Cuddyer in 2009, which was the last season of Metrodome.
BUXON finally shows what he can do in the field because he has been healthy for most of the season. He has played in over 100 games only twice since 2015, but he has played in 77 of possible 85 games this season.
Byron Buxton (25) from Minnesota Twins celebrates a solo home ride to finish the cycle when he rounds off the bases against Pittsburgh Pirates in the seventh round of Target Field 12 July 2025 in Minneapolis. (David Berding/Getty Images)
He was named an all-star for the second time in his career, and did so in 2022 as he mashed 28 homers in 92 matches. But injuries derived the rest of his season. In 2021 he played on only 61 games, but accumulated a 4.9 war by cutting .306/.358/.647 with 19 homers and 32 RBIs.
