Players have hit for the cycle 244 times in in the last 100 years – and few potential individual feats in baseball are more exciting than when a player has one last at bat left with a cycle on the line.

But how often do players fall one hit short of the cycle? And how many of each?

In the last century of baseball, batters have been one hit short of the cycle 20,481 times, according to research by Jon Becker (@mlbrandomfandom) of the Ball Eight research department. They include:

Triple short: 13,183 times

Home run shot: 5,112 times

Double short: 1,721 times

Single short: 465 times

You can see a full list of the players who finished a single short of the cycle here.

Some items of note about the list:

Three-fers: Ten players were a single short of the cycle three times – Babe Ruth, Brian Giles, Hank Aaron, Joe Cronin, Lou Gehrig, Ellis Burks, Frank Robinson, Gregg Jeffries, Magglio Ordonez, Manny Trillo. Of these, Cronin (2), Gehrig (2), Robinson (1) and Jeffries (1) managed to hit for the cycle in a game.

Repeat performance: Chris Owings was a single short of the cycle twice in 17 days in 2014.

Decades: Ken Griffey was a single short of the cycle twice – and they came 7,539 days apart (nearly 21 years).

2014: It happened eight times last season, after just four in 2013.

And here is the of players who have done it since 2000:

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