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Watch Brock Holt hit for the cycle

Brock Holt stands on third base after hitting for the cycle. Globe Staff Photo/Jim Davis

The Red Sox’s human Swiss army knife Brock Holt is known for doing a little bit of everything in the field. But in Tuesday’s 9-4 home win against the Atlanta Braves, he did it all at the plate.

Batting lead-off and playing second base, Holt became the first Red Sox player to hit for the cycle since John Valentin in 1996.

He started things off with a double in the first inning, then a single in the fifth, an opposite-field home run in the seventh, and of course — the last and most difficult hit to record — a triangle triple in the eighth inning:

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After the game, Holt, ever the overachiever, said he was “just trying to do his part.’’

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He finished the game 4-5, with two RBIs and two runs scored.

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