A triple is by far the rarest hit in Major League Baseball.
This season, according to data at baseball-reference.com, there have been 0.13 triples per team per game.
For comparison, there have.
Jonathan Villar's single at Pittsburgh on April 13 made him the fifth Cubs newcomer this season to make a hit.
When 5 more do so, the total count will be 1,500 different players who have made hits.
The fans who came to Weeghman Park, today's Wrigley Field, on Sunday, Sept. 21, 1919, "yelled at everything," James Crusinberry wrote in the next day's Chicago Tribune, "and as the players were.