One late-inning hit turned a rare individual feat into a family affair.

On May 26, 2004, the Pirate’s Daryle Ward’s 9th inning single completed the cycle. With that hit, he joined his father Gary Ward—who had hit for the cycle on September 18, 1980—as the first father-son duo to each accomplish the feat. One swing didn’t just create a career highlight—it connected two generations in a way baseball had never seen.