In 2008, Edwin Jackson struck out six and walked eight batters on his way to a no-hit accomplishment.
Three of those duets — "We're Gonna Hold On," "Golden Ring" and "Near You" — were No. 1 country hits, an accomplishment made more poignant by the singers' widely reported marital friction.
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Watching them play, seeing them cheat, it kept hitting me that accomplishment is a human desiderata in itself".
Batters have no equivalent accomplishment: hitting four home runs in a game might be the closest, but even batters who manage that could conceivably have hit five, or even six, if they had got enough at-bats.
Getting hit was no great accomplishment, but I had dodged the golden duck.
Rather than a nuanced, textured account of what it has meant to be black in America, "Life Upon These Shores" is a hit parade of black accomplishment and exceptionalism — a chronicle of what Du Bois called (I guess it sounded all right at the time), and Gates later dredges up (jokingly, but nonetheless tastelessly, to describe some contemporary black corporate chieftains), the "talented tenth".
In 2009, Ian Kinsler had six hits in the game when he hit his cycle; the accomplishment came on Jackie Robinson Day, honoring the African-American pioneer who had himself hit for the cycle on August 29 , 1948
In baseball, hitting for the cycle is the accomplishment of one batter hitting a single, a double, a triple, and a home run in the same game.
If one were attempting to mummify Occupy Wall Street by reducing it to a greatest hits list of accomplishments, the kinds of questions asked Tuesday by many mainstream news outlets would be a good start: "What about the street presence?
Blair says the magnitude of the accomplishment didn't hit the team until later.
