It takes two days to accomplish the feat, but Tim Foli becomes the first Expo to hit for the cycle

On April 22, 1976 — It takes two days to accomplish the feat, but Tim Foli becomes the first Expo to hit for the cycle when he homers in the eighth inning of a suspended game. Before the Wrigley Field contest was halted yesterday because of darkness, the Montreal shortstop had stroked a single, double, and triple in the club’s eventual 12-6 victory over Chicago, in that order, for a rare ‘natural cycle’.

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The Padres sign free agent P Bobby Jones to a one-year contract for $625,000. Jones left the Mets after 7+ seasons, declining a Mets offer of salary arbitration that would have netted him, at worst, $2 or $3 million. Last year Jones, 11-4, made $5.25 million. Jones will lose 19 games this season.

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