George Kottaras hits for the cycle this season

This Day In Baseball

On September 3, 2011 — George Kottaras, needing a two-bagger to become the first major leaguer to hit for the cycle this season, strokes an apparent triple, but accomplishes the feat when the ball bounces off of Tal’s Hill, a 20-degree angled incline located in centerfield, over the fence for an unexpected ground-rule double. The Brewers backstop also hit a solo homer in the fourth, a sixth-inning triple, and singled in the seventh in Milwaukee’s 8-4 victory of Houston at Minute Maid Park.

Light-hitting Craig Counsell contributes his first homer of the year and Taylor Green notches the first RBI of his career as the team’s bench players lead Chris Narveson to his 10th win of the year. All five Brewer starting pitchers have now won in double figures.