Stephen Drew and Adrian Beltre both hit for the cycle Monday:

It was the first time two players hit for the cycle on the same day since Sept. 17, 1920, when Bobby Veach of the Detroit Tigers and George Burns of the New York Giants did it, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Both players collected five hits, Drew with two doubles and Beltre with two singles. Stephen did a bit less damage with his cycle, scoring three times and driving in one, while Beltre scored five runs and drove in three. Adrian is on a nice eight game hitting streak in which he's scored 12 runs and driven in 9. This is more of what Seattle expected when they signed him for the 2005 season.

Drew's hits are coming in bunches lately. It's his third multi-hit game in a row and he has ten of those in his last 17 games. Both these teams need these two players to hit well down the stretch, in Seattle's case to end the year on a high note, and for Arizona to hold off the Dodgers in the NL West.

Update: Dave Cameron notes how similar the two are as hitters.