What Is The Hat Trick

He came amazingly close to securing a hat trick but the third batter managed to dash his hopes by scoring a run.

What is the hat trick. A hat trick is a baseball term that you dread hearing. Goals do not need to be scored in succession and it does not matter whether they are. Like its hockey counterpart the term involves the number three.

A player who achieves this is awarded with the match ball. The winning score came with less than a minute left to play. Definition of hat trick.

Three strikeouts by the same hitter make up a hat trick in baseball. Hat trick - sports three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game as in cricket or ice hockey etc score - the act of scoring in a game or sport. In football a perfect hat-trick can be achieved by scoring one goal with the right foot one goal with the left foot and one.

Any goal scored in a penalty shootout is not added towards a hat trick but shots taken in added time and extra time still count. In ice hockey a hat-trick is when a player scores three goals in a game. Interestingly the English term hat-trick tends to be used in Germany and Spain.

Thats where the similarities end. The scoring of three goals in one game as of hockey or soccer by a single player. The term hat trick is widely used in hockey soccer water polo and lacrosse but its origins are in cricket.

Stephensons accomplishment of such in 1858 and so named because he was allegedly awarded a new hat afterward. Although people may consider a hat trick as three goals scored in a row this is commonly confused with. The first reference that I can find to it in print is from Punch magazine 1858.