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{{short description|Achievement of three consecutive sporting feats}}
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A '''hat-trick''' or '''hat trick''' is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.<ref>{{cite web |title=hat trick |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hat-trick |website=dictionary.cambridge.org |publisher=[[Cambridge Dictionary]] |access-date=1 August 2021 |language=en |archive-date=6 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306080751/https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hat-trick |url-status=live }}</ref>


==Origin==
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The term first appeared in 1858 in [[cricket]], to describe [[H. H. Stephenson]] taking three [[Wicket#Dismissing a batsman|wickets]] with three consecutive [[delivery (cricket)|deliveries]]. Fans held a collection for Stephenson, and presented him with a hat bought with the proceeds.<ref>''Extended Oxford English Dictionary'' 1999 Edition : "It came into use after HH Stephenson took three wickets in three balls for the all-England eleven against the twenty-two of Hallam at the Hyde Park ground, Sheffield in 1858. A collection was held for Stephenson (as was customary for outstanding feats by professionals) and he was presented with a cap or hat bought with the proceeds."</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=hat-trick |url=https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hat-trick |access-date=July 27, 2023 |website=Oxford Learner's Dictionaries}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hutchinson |first=Sean |date=2014-04-24 |title=Where Does the Phrase 'Hat Trick' Come From? |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56326/where-does-phrase-hat-trick-come |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=Mental Floss |language=en-US}}</ref> The term was used in print for the first time in 1865 in the [[Essex Chronicle|''Chelmsford Chronicle'']].<ref>A report of a match between Grays and Romford in {{closed access}} {{cite book |title=The Chelmsford Chronicle |url=http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/infomark.do?serQuery=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29:FQE=%28JX%2CNone%2C22%29%22Chelmsford%20Chronicle%22%24&queryType=PH&type=pubIssues&prodId=BNCN&version=1.0&source=library |date=23 June 1865 |isbn=9781890009908 |oclc=866859233 |id={{OCLC|17645885|702688846|42349342}} |quote=Mr Biddell...with his second ball bowled the Romford leviathan Mr Beauchamp and afterwards effected the hat-trick by getting three wickets in the over. |url-access=subscription |last1=Messner |first1=Reinhold | publisher=Executive Excellence Pub. |access-date=27 March 2017 |archive-date=28 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328021059/http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/infomark.do?serQuery=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29:FQE=%28JX%2CNone%2C22%29%22Chelmsford%20Chronicle%22%24&queryType=PH&type=pubIssues&prodId=BNCN&version=1.0&source=library |url-status=live }}</ref>{{non primary source needed|date=July 2021}} The term was eventually adopted by many other sports including [[hockey]], [[association football]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Why is it called a hat-trick? - Pelé youngest in World Cup, Pontikas youngest ever|url=https://vimbuzz.com/why-is-it-called-a-hat-trick/|publisher=vimbuzz.com|date=18 December 2022|author=|access-date=1 April 2023|archive-date=1 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401071429/https://vimbuzz.com/why-is-it-called-a-hat-trick/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Formula 1]] racing, rugby, and [[water polo]].
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==Use==
A '''hat-trick''' or '''hat trick''' in sports is the achievement of a positive feat three times in a game, or another achievement based on the number three in some sports.


===Association football===
==Origin==
{{See also|Lists of hat-tricks|List of footballers who achieved hat-trick records|List of FIFA Club World Cup hat-tricks|List of FIFA World Cup hat-tricks}}
The term first appeared in 1858 in [[cricket]], to describe [[H. H. Stephenson]]'s taking three [[Wicket#Dismissing a batsman|wickets]] with three consecutive [[delivery (cricket)|deliveries]]. Fans held a collection for Stephenson, and presented him with a hat bought with the proceeds.<ref>''Extended Oxford English Dictionary'' 1999 Edition : "It came into use after HH Stephenson took three wickets in three balls for the all-England eleven against the twenty-two of Hallam at the Hyde Park ground, Sheffield in 1858. A collection was held for Stephenson (as was customary for outstanding feats by professionals) and he was presented with a cap or hat bought with the proceeds."</ref> The term was used in print for the first time in 1865.<ref>A report of a match between Grays and Romford in {{closed access}} {{cite journal |title=The Chelmsford Chronicle |url=http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/infomark.do?serQuery=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29:FQE=%28JX%2CNone%2C22%29%22Chelmsford%20Chronicle%22%24&queryType=PH&type=pubIssues&prodId=BNCN&version=1.0&source=library |date=23 June 1865 |oclc=866859233 |id={{OCLC|17645885|702688846|42349342}}|quote=Mr Biddell...with his second ball bowled the Romford leviathan Mr Beauchamp and afterwards effected the hat-trick by getting three wickets in the over.|subscription=yes}}{{verification needed|date=March 2017}}</ref> The term was eventually adopted by many other sports including [[hockey]], [[association football]], [[water polo]] and [[team handball]].


A hat-trick<ref>{{cite web|title=What do they do with hats after a hat-trick|url=https://www.thetimes.com.ng/2022/12/what-do-they-do-with-hats-after-a-hat-trick/|work=The Times|date=3 December 2022|author=Uwakwe Benson|access-date=30 March 2023|archive-date=30 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330065910/https://www.thetimes.com.ng/2022/12/what-do-they-do-with-hats-after-a-hat-trick/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=What Is a Hat-Trick in Football and How Common Are They? - Records by Helmchen, Bican, Pantelic, Lucijanic, Pontikas and Pelé|url=https://footballcollective.org.uk/terminology/hat-trick/|publisher=footballcollective.org.uk|date=August 2022|author=|access-date=30 March 2023|archive-date=22 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522214752/https://footballcollective.org.uk/terminology/hat-trick/|url-status=live}}</ref> occurs in [[association football]] when a player scores three [[Scoring in association football|goals]] (not necessarily consecutive) in a single game,<ref>{{cite web
==Association football==
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}}</ref> whereas scoring two goals (in a single match) is called a '''brace'''<!--redirect target-->.<ref>[http://www.soccer-training-info.com/soccer_definitions.asp Soccer Definitions & Slang Terms] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915000039/http://www.soccer-training-info.com/soccer_definitions.asp |date=15 September 2018 }} soccer-training-info.com</ref><ref>[https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/brace "Brace" means two of a kind or a pair of something] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216142247/https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/brace |date=16 February 2017 }} Harper Collins</ref> In common with other official record-keeping rules, all goals scored during the regulation 90 minutes, plus extra time if required, are counted but goals in a [[penalty shootout (association football)|penalty shootout]] are excluded from the tally.<ref>Kicks from the penalty mark (aka penalty shootout) do not form part of the match. {{cite web |title=Laws of the Game 2009/2010 |url=https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/federation/81/42/36/lawsofthegameen.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710202515/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/federation/81/42/36/lawsofthegameen.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 July 2009 |page=130 |author=IFAB |author-link=International Football Association Board |publisher=[[FIFA]] |location=Zürich |date=July 2009 |access-date=9 April 2010}}</ref> The fastest recorded time to score a hat-trick is 70 seconds, a record set by Alex Torr in a [[Sunday league football|Sunday league]] game in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sunday-league-footballer-scores-hat-trick-1868201|title=Sunday league footballer scores hat-trick in record-breaking 70 seconds|author=Steve White|date=3 May 2013|work=mirror|access-date=6 July 2015|archive-date=21 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721072933/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sunday-league-footballer-scores-hat-trick-1868201|url-status=live}}</ref> The previous record of 90 seconds was held by [[Tommy Ross (footballer)|Tommy Ross]] playing for [[Ross County F.C.|Ross County]] against [[Nairn County F.C.|Nairn County]] on 28 November 1964.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-time-to-score-a-hat-trick-football/ | title=Fastest time to score a hat-trick, Football | publisher=Guinness World Records | access-date=18 August 2011 | archive-date=16 September 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916015745/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-time-to-score-a-hat-trick-football | url-status=live }}</ref> The record of the youngest player ever to score a hat-trick<ref>{{cite web|title=
Youngest Players in History to Score a Hat-Trick|url=https://urdusport.com/youngest-players-in-history-to-score-a-hat-trick/|publisher= www.urdusport.com|date=1 September 2023|author=}}</ref> was set by [[Ntinos Pontikas]] in 1996,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://90soccer.com/the-magical-feeling-of-a-hat-trick/ | title=The magical feeling of a hat-trick: from McDougall, Bican and Pelé to Lucijanic, Siri and Pontikas | date=21 June 2021 | publisher=90soccer.com | access-date=21 June 2021 | archive-date=9 April 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409014651/https://90soccer.com/the-magical-feeling-of-a-hat-trick/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://ashflowersports.com/2021/03/06/ntinos-pontikas-the-greek-freddy-adu/| title=Ntinos Pontikas, the Greek Freddy Adu| date=6 March 2021| publisher=ashflowersports.com | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182016/https://ashflowersports.com/2021/03/06/ntinos-pontikas-the-greek-freddy-adu/| access-date=6 March 2021| archive-date=9 July 2021}}</ref> while [[Pelé]] in 1958 became the youngest to achieve a hat-trick in the [[FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/1958-world-cup-pele-a-star-is-born/ | title=History of the World Cup: 1958 – A star is born in Pele | publisher=sportsnet | access-date=9 June 2018 | archive-date=7 August 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807064435/https://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/1958-world-cup-pele-a-star-is-born/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pele's legendary career told in numbers: Just how good was Brazil's emblematic forward? |url=https://www.squawka.com/en/pele-legendary-career-in-numbers/ |publisher=www.squawka.com |date=30 December 2022 |author=Ben Green |access-date=30 March 2023 |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206135520/https://www.squawka.com/en/pele-legendary-career-in-numbers/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|source = — Rob Smyth of ''The Guardian'' on [[Rivaldo]]’s hat-trick for [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]] against [[Valencia CF|Valencia]] in June 2001.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Joy of Six: classiest hat-tricks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/sep/11/newsstory.sport9 |access-date=22 August 2014 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=22 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222114637/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/sep/11/newsstory.sport9 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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The first hat-trick<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bookiesignupoffers.com/2023/08/01/which-footballer-has-scored-the-most-hat-tricks/|title= Which Footballer Has Scored the Most Hat-Tricks?
|date= 1 August 2023|author=|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230817204408/https://www.bookiesignupoffers.com/2023/08/01/which-footballer-has-scored-the-most-hat-tricks/
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}}</ref> achieved in an international game was by Scottish player [[John McDougall (footballer, born 1853)|John McDougall]], against [[England national football team|England]] on 2 March 1878.<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/scot-intres1880.html Scotland – International Matches 1872–1880] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921034248/http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/scot-intres1880.html |date=21 September 2011 }} [[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]. Retrieved 11 September 2015.</ref> German [[Erwin Helmchen]] scored 141 official hat-tricks in his career with [[Pelé]] having 92.<ref>[https://topsoccerblog.com/football-players-with-most-hattricks/ 10 Players with the most hat tricks in history - Topsoccer.com]</ref> [[United States men's national soccer team|American]] player [[Bert Patenaude]] scored the first hat-trick in the FIFA World Cup, against [[Paraguay national football team|Paraguay]] in the [[1930 FIFA World Cup|inaugural event]] in 1930. Three hat-tricks have been scored in a [[List of FIFA World Cup finals|World Cup final]]: by [[Geoff Hurst]] for [[England national football team|England]] in the [[1966 FIFA World Cup Final|1966 final]] against [[West Germany national football team|West Germany]],<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_2644000/2644065.stm | title=On This Day 30 July – 1966: Football glory for England | publisher=BBC | access-date=18 August 2011 | date=30 July 1966 | archive-date=7 March 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307005913/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_2644000/2644065.stm | url-status=live }}</ref> by [[Carli Lloyd]] for the [[United States women's national soccer team|USA]] against [[Japan women's national football team|Japan]] in the [[2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final|2015 Women's World Cup final]] and by [[Kylian Mbappé]] for [[France national football team|France]] in the [[2022 FIFA World Cup Final|2022 final]] against [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Kylian Mbappe historic World Cup hat trick: France star becomes second player to nab three goals in FIFA championship|url=https://www.sportingnews.com/us/amp/soccer/news/kylian-mbappe-world-cup-hat-trick-france-fifa/kaejk3kkhhdk1yhxmi0qzg5s|publisher= www.sportingnews.com
|date=18 December 2022|author=}}</ref> Lloyd's was, at 16 minutes, the fastest from kick-off in any World Cup match. However, the fastest World Cup hat-trick, as measured by time between goals, belongs to [[Fabienne Humm]] of [[Switzerland women's national football team|Switzerland]], who scored in the 47th, 49th and 52nd minutes against [[Ecuador women's national football team|Ecuador]] in the 2015 group stage.<ref>{{cite news|title=Women's World Cup 2015: Fabienne Humm scores fastest World Cup hat-trick|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33120582|access-date=30 March 2018|publisher=[[BBC Sport]]|date=13 June 2015}}</ref>


Traditionally, a player who scores a hat-trick is allowed to keep the match ball as a memento.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/jan/28/theknowledge.sport|title=The knowledge: Who gets the match ball?|last=Turner|first=Georgina|date=2004-01-28|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-06-25|archive-date=25 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625185546/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/jan/28/theknowledge.sport|url-status=live}}</ref>
A '''hat-trick''' occurs in association football when a player scores three [[Scoring in association football|goals]] (not necessarily consecutive) in a single game, whereas scoring two goals constitutes a '''brace'''.<ref>[http://www.soccer-training-info.com/soccer_definitions.asp Soccer Definitions & Slang Terms] soccer-training-info.com</ref><ref>[https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/brace "Brace" means two of a kind or a pair of something] Harper Collins</ref> In common with other official record-keeping rules, goals in a [[penalty shootout (association football)|penalty shootout]] are excluded from the tally.<ref>Kicks from the penalty mark (aka penalty shootout) are not part of the match. {{cite web |title=Laws of the Game 2009/2010 |url=https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/federation/81/42/36/lawsofthegameen.pdf |format=[[PDF]] |page=130 |author=IFAB |authorlink=International Football Association Board |publisher=[[FIFA]] |location=[[Zurich]] |date=July 2009 |accessdate=9 April 2010}}</ref> The extra time in a knockout cup match may also be calculated towards a player's potential hat-trick. The fastest recorded time to score a hat-trick is 70 seconds, a record set by Alex Torr in a [[Sunday league football|Sunday league]] game in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sunday-league-footballer-scores-hat-trick-1868201|title=Sunday league footballer scores hat-trick in record-breaking 70 seconds|author=Steve White|date=3 May 2013|work=mirror|accessdate=6 July 2015}}</ref> The previous record of 90 seconds was held by [[Tommy Ross (footballer)|Tommy Ross]] playing for [[Ross County F.C.|Ross County]] against [[Nairn County F.C.|Nairn County]] on 28 November 1964.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-time-to-score-a-hat-trick-football/ | title=Fastest time to score a hat-trick, Football | publisher=Guinness World Records | accessdate=18 August 2011}}</ref>


====Perfect hat-trick====
The first hat-trick in an international game was by Scottish player [[John McDougall (footballer, born 1853)|John McDougall]], against [[England national football team|England]] on 2 March 1878.<ref>[http://www.rsssf.com/tabless/scot-intres1880.html Scotland – International Matches 1872–1880] [[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation]]. Retrieved 11 September 2015.</ref> [[United States men's national soccer team|American]] player [[Bert Patenaude]] scored the first hat-trick in the [[FIFA World Cup]], against [[Paraguay national football team|Paraguay]] in the [[1930 FIFA World Cup|inaugural event]]. Two hat-tricks have been scored in a [[List of FIFA World Cup finals|final]], by [[Geoff Hurst]] for [[England national football team|England]] in the [[1966 FIFA World Cup Final|1966 final]] during extra time against [[West Germany national football team|West Germany]],<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_2644000/2644065.stm | title=ON THIS DAY 30 July – 1966: Football glory for England | publisher=BBC | accessdate=18 August 2011 | date=30 July 1966}}</ref> and [[Carli Lloyd]] for the [[United States women's national soccer team|USA]] against [[Japan women's national football team|Japan]] in the [[2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final|2015 Women's World Cup final]]. Lloyd's was the fastest hat-trick scored in a World Cup final, and the fastest from kickoff in any World Cup match for either sex. However, the fastest hat-trick for either men or women, as measured by time between goals, belongs to [[Fabienne Humm]] of [[Switzerland women's national football team|Switzerland]], who scored in the 47th, 49th and 52nd minutes against [[Ecuador women's national football team|Ecuador]] in the 2015 group stage.


Football has also extended the term to include the phrase '''perfect hat-trick''', achieved when a player scores one right-footed goal, one left-footed goal and one headed goal within one match.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20639621 Michel Platini: Uefa chief has his critics but is used to success], Ben Smith, 9 December 2012</ref><ref>[http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31679560 Alberto Bueno scored four La Liga goals in ..16 .. minutes ], BBC News, 28 February 2015</ref> In Germany, the term ''(lupenreiner) Hattrick'' ("flawless hat-trick") refers to when a player scores three goals in a row in one half without the half-time break or a goal scored by another player interrupting the performance.
Football has also extended the term, with a '''perfect hat-trick''' being when a player scores one right-footed goal, one left-footed goal and one headed goal within one match.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20639621 Michel Platini: Uefa chief has his critics but is used to success] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222172222/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20639621 |date=22 December 2015 }}, Ben Smith, 9 December 2012</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31679560 Alberto Bueno scored four La Liga goals in ..16 .. minutes ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924222024/http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31679560 |date=24 September 2015 }}, BBC News, 28 February 2015</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/perfect-hat-trick | title=The Perfect Hat Trick &#124; meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary | access-date=3 October 2019 | archive-date=3 June 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603043948/https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/perfect-hat-trick | url-status=live }}</ref> In Germany and Austria, the term ''({{langx|de|'''lupenreiner'''}}) Hattrick'' ('''''flawless hat-trick''''') refers to when a player scores three goals in a row in one half without the half-time break or a goal scored by another player interrupting the performance.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Woodward|first=Hamish|date=2021-06-07|title=What is a Brace in Soccer? And Other Interesting Football Terminology|url=https://atletifo.com/football/what-is-a-brace-in-soccer-and-other-interesting-football-terminology/|access-date=2021-06-07|website=Atletifo Sports|language=en-US|archive-date=7 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607091754/https://atletifo.com/football/what-is-a-brace-in-soccer-and-other-interesting-football-terminology/|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Baseball==
===Baseball===
In the past, the term was occasionally used to describe when a player [[strikeout|struck out]] three times in a baseball game, and the term ''[[golden sombrero]]'' was more commonly used when a player struck out four times in a game.
In the past, the term was occasionally used to describe when a player [[strikeout|struck out]] three times in a baseball game, and the term ''[[golden sombrero]]'' was more commonly used when a player struck out four times in a game.


In recent years, hat trick has been more often used to describe when a player hits three [[home run]]s in a game.
In recent years, hat trick has been more often used to describe when a player hits three [[home run]]s in a game.


For example, on 29 August 2015, [[Toronto Blue Jays]] fans celebrated [[Edwin Encarnación]]'s third home run of the game by throwing hats onto the field, similar to the tradition in ice hockey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/hat-trick--edwin-encarnacion-hits-three-homers--drives-in-nine-in-jays-win-202735441.html|title=Hat trick! Edwin Encarnación hits three homers, drives in nine in Jays win|date=29 August 2015|work=Yahoo Sports}}</ref> The phenomenon continued during the 2016 season, and on 17 June 2016, a number of Blue Jays fans at [[Oriole Park at Camden Yards]] threw hats on to the field after Canadian Blue Jays player [[Michael Saunders]] hit his third home run of the night, and again on 28 August at [[Rogers Centre]], when Blue Jays player [[Josh Donaldson]] hitting his third home run of the game in the eighth inning against the [[Minnesota Twins]].
For example, on 29 August 2015, [[Toronto Blue Jays]] fans celebrated [[Edwin Encarnación]]'s third home run of the game by throwing hats onto the field, similar to the tradition in ice hockey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/hat-trick--edwin-encarnacion-hits-three-homers--drives-in-nine-in-jays-win-202735441.html|title=Hat trick! Edwin Encarnación hits three homers, drives in nine in Jays win|date=29 August 2015|work=Yahoo! Sports|access-date=14 January 2017|archive-date=6 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406112116/https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/hat-trick--edwin-encarnacion-hits-three-homers--drives-in-nine-in-jays-win-202735441.html|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Cricket==
===Cricket===
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{{See also|List of Test cricket hat-tricks|List of One Day International cricket hat-tricks|List of Twenty20 International cricket hat-tricks|List of first-class cricket records#Hat-tricks}}
A hat-trick occurs in cricket when an individual bowler [[Dismissal (cricket)|takes three wickets]] with consecutive [[Delivery (cricket)|deliveries]] in the same match.


===Gaelic football===
A hat-trick occurs in cricket when a bowler dismisses three batsmen with consecutive deliveries. The deliveries may be interrupted by an [[over (cricket)|over]] bowled by another bowler from the other end of the [[Cricket pitch|pitch]] or the other team's [[innings]], but must be three consecutive deliveries by the individual bowler in the same match. Only wickets attributed to the bowler count towards a hat-trick; run outs do not count.
In [[Gaelic football]], a hat-trick can refer to [[Scoring in Gaelic games|goals ''or'' to points scored]].


[[Eoin Liston]] scored a second-half hat-trick in the [[1978 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final]].<ref>[[Martin Breheny|Breheny, Martin]]. "Martin Breheny's Greatest All-Ireland Finals". ''[[Irish Independent]]''. 1 September 2018, p. 11.</ref>
In some countries, especially Australia, four wickets in four balls is sometimes referred to as a double hat-trick on the basis that there are two ways of compiling the three-in-three sequence (ie wickets 1,2 and 3 or wickets 2,3 and 4). By extension, five consecutive wickets is a triple hat-trick and six consecutive wickets a quadruple hat-trick.


[[Michael Quinlivan]] scored a second-half hat-trick against Armagh in the final game of the [[2017 National Football League (Ireland)|2017 National Football League]] to secure [[Promotion and relegation|promotion]] to Division 2 for Tipperary.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/for-the-love-of-club-county-and-football-why-tipperarys-star-forward-came-home-39830151.html|title=For the love of club, county and football – why Tipperary's star forward came home|work=[[Sunday Independent (Ireland)|Sunday Independent]]|first=Dermot|last=Crowe|date=6 December 2020|access-date=9 December 2020|archive-date=6 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206095327/https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/for-the-love-of-club-county-and-football-why-tipperarys-star-forward-came-home-39830151.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-20446812.html Michael Quinlivan heroics against Armagh sees Tipperary promoted] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730111159/https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-20446812.html |date=30 July 2021 }} ''[[Irish Examiner]]''</ref>
Hat-tricks are rare, and as such are treasured by bowlers. In [[Test cricket]] history there have been just [[List of Test cricket hat-tricks|43 hat-tricks]], the first achieved by [[Fred Spofforth]] for [[Australian cricket team|Australia]] against [[English cricket team|England]] in 1879. In 1912, Australian [[Jimmy Matthews]] achieved the feat twice in one game against [[South African cricket team|South Africa]]. The only other players to achieve two hat-tricks are Australia's [[Hugh Trumble]], against England in 1902 and 1904, [[Pakistani cricket team|Pakistan]]'s [[Wasim Akram]], in separate games against [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka]] in 1999, and England's [[Stuart Broad]].


[[Jack McCaffrey]]'s total of 1–3 in the [[2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final]] (drawn game) involved a "classic hat-trick" of points, sent over the bar with fist and both feet.<ref>{{cite news|first=Frank|last=Roche|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/frank-roche-dart-from-clontarf-arrives-on-time-for-blues-final-destination-38496391.html|title='Dart from Clontarf' arrives on time for Blues' final destination|work=[[Sunday Independent (Ireland)|Sunday Independent]]|date=14 September 2019|access-date=14 September 2019|quote=We had the classic hat-trick of points - via fist, left foot and right.|archive-date=8 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200908003841/https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/frank-roche-dart-from-clontarf-arrives-on-time-for-blues-final-destination-38496391.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In [[One Day International]] cricket there have been [[List of One Day International cricket hat-tricks|36 hat-tricks]], the first by [[Jalal-ud-Din (cricketer)|Jalal-ud-Din]] for Pakistan against Australia in 1982, and the most recent by [[Kuldeep Yadav]].


[[Cillian O'Connor]]'s four goals (accompanied by nine points) in the [[2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]] semi-final at [[Croke Park]] broke the 5–3 record set by [[Johnny Joyce (Gaelic footballer)|Johnny Joyce]] of Dublin in 1960 and matched with 3–9 by [[Rory Gallagher (Gaelic footballer)|Rory Gallagher]] of Fermanagh in 2002 for the highest individual scorer in any championship football match.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sportsjoe.ie/gaa/cillian-oconnor-record-breaker-tipperary-fairytale-ends-221290|title=Cillian O'Connor the record-breaker as Tipperary fairytale ends|publisher=[[Joe (website)|Joe]]|date=6 December 2020|access-date=9 December 2020|archive-date=9 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209011614/https://www.sportsjoe.ie/gaa/cillian-oconnor-record-breaker-tipperary-fairytale-ends-221290|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://hoganstand.com/Mayo/article/index/314621|title=O'Connor breaks All-Ireland scoring record with 4-9|work=[[Hogan Stand]]|date=6 December 2020|access-date=9 December 2020|archive-date=9 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209012643/https://hoganstand.com/Mayo/article/index/314621|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[Lasith Malinga]] s the only bowler to take three hat-tricks in any form of international cricket with his three in ODI. Three players have taken at least two ODI hat-tricks in their careers: [[Wasim Akram]] and [[Saqlain Mushtaq]] of [[Pakistani cricket team|Pakistan]] and [[Chaminda Vaas]] of [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka]]. (Akram therefore has four international hat-tricks in total).


[[David Clifford]] scored a hat-trick against Galway in the opening round of the [[2021 National Football League (Ireland)|2021 National Football League]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2021/0515/1221868-i-dont-know-where-that-came-from-clifford/|title='I don't know where that came from' - Clifford coy on stunning finish for hat-trick|publisher=RTÉ|date=16 May 2021|access-date=21 May 2021|archive-date=21 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521043512/https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2021/0515/1221868-i-dont-know-where-that-came-from-clifford/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Taking two wickets in two consecutive deliveries is occasionally known as a '''brace''', or (more commonly, especially until the next delivery has been made) being '''on a hat-trick'''.


===Gridiron football===
The feat of taking four wickets in four balls has occurred only once in international one-day cricket, in the [[2007 Cricket World Cup|2007 World Cup]], when [[Sri Lankan cricket team|Sri Lanka's]] [[Lasith Malinga]] managed the feat against [[South African cricket team|South Africa]] by dismissing [[Shaun Pollock]], [[Andrew Hall]], [[Jacques Kallis]] and [[Makhaya Ntini]], though it has occurred on other occasions in [[first-class cricket]]. [[Kevan James]] of [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] took four wickets in four balls and scored a century in the same county game against India in 1996. The [[Cricinfo]] report on the game claimed that this was unique in cricket.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1996/IND_IN_ENG/IND_HANTS_29JUN-01JUL1996_ET_MR.html|title=Hampshire v Indians, Match Report. |publisher=CricInfo|accessdate=11 April 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1996/IND_IN_ENG/IND_HANTS_29JUN-01JUL1996.html|title=Hampshire v Indians at Southampton, 29 June-1 July 1996|publisher=CricInfo|accessdate=11 April 2007}}</ref>
The term hat-trick is only occasionally used in [[gridiron football]], usually for rhetorical flourish in [[sports journalism|sports writing]]. Usually an offensive player scoring three [[touchdowns]] in a single game is awarded a hat-trick.


Additionally, the term is applied to a defensive player, often an [[edge rusher]], who in a single [[down (gridiron football)|scrimmage play]] performs a [[quarterback sack|sack]] which causes the quarterback to [[fumble]], and then recovers that fumble. <ref>{{cite news|url=https://wildcatbluenation.com/2021/11/10/former-kentucky-football-star-josh-allen/|title=Kentucky Football: Former Wildcat Josh Allen honored for rare NFL hat-trick|publisher=Fansided|date=10 Nov 2021|access-date=10 Nov 2021|archive-date=10 Nov 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110174628/https://wildcatbluenation.com/2021/11/10/former-kentucky-football-star-josh-allen/|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[Nuwan Zoysa]] of Sri Lanka is the only bowler to achieve a hat-trick off his first three balls in a Test, dismissing [[Murray Goodwin]], [[Neil Johnson (cricketer)|Neil Johnson]] and [[Trevor Gripper]] of Zimbabwe.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=The Independent|title=Cricket: Zoysa performs opening hat-trick|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket-zoysa-performs-opening-hattrick-1129030.html|accessdate=14 November 2012|location=London|date=27 November 1999}}</ref> In 2006 [[Irfan Pathan]] of India achieved a hat-trick in the first over of the test match, off the last three balls, when dismissing [[Salman Butt]], [[Younis Khan]] and [[Mohammad Yousuf (cricketer, born 1974)|Mohammad Yousuf]] of Pakistan. [[Chaminda Vaas]] is the only one to achieve a hat-trick of the very first deliveries in one day internationals, against Bangladesh in the tenth match of 2003 ICC World Cup at City Oval, [[Pietermaritzburg]]. He got [[Hannan Sarkar]], [[Mohammad Ashraful]] and [[Ehsanul Haque]] out in the first three balls and took his fourth wicket in the fifth ball of the same over, just missing the double-hat-trick.


===Handball===
[[Albert Trott]] and [[Joginder Rao]] are the only two bowlers credited with ''two'' hat-tricks in the same innings in first-class cricket. One of Trott's two hat-tricks, for Middlesex against Somerset at Lords in 1907, was a four in four.
In [[handball]], if a player scores thrice in a game, a hat-trick is made.


===Hockey===
Some hat-tricks are particularly extraordinary. On 2 December 1988, [[Merv Hughes]], playing for Australia, dismissed [[Curtly Ambrose]] with the last ball of his penultimate over and [[Patrick Patterson (cricketer)|Patrick Patterson]] with the first ball of his next over, wrapping up the West Indies first innings. When Hughes returned to bowl in the West Indies second innings, he trapped [[Gordon Greenidge]] [[leg before wicket|lbw]] with his first ball, completing a hat-trick over two different innings and becoming the only player in [[Test cricket]] history to achieve the three wickets of a hat-trick in three different overs.
[[File:Ovechkin hat-trick (February 7, 2010).jpg|thumb|right|Hats on the [[Capital One Arena|Verizon Center]] ice after [[Alexander Ovechkin|Alex Ovechkin]]'s hat trick, 7 February 2010]]
In [[field hockey]] and [[ice hockey]], a hat trick occurs when a player scores three goals in a single game. A hat trick in ice hockey, as it is known in its current form, culminates with fans throwing hats onto the ice from the stands. The tradition is said to have begun among fans in the [[National Hockey League]] around the 1950s,<ref name="guelph">{{Cite news|title=Guelph's tricky claim|url=http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/455592|access-date=6 April 2009|date=21 March 2009|newspaper=[[Guelph Mercury]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325053026/http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/455592|archive-date=25 March 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
with several conflicting legends from the Canadian cities of [[Toronto]], [[Montreal]], and [[Guelph]] of various hatmakers offering a free hat to players who scored a hat trick.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26376 | title=Miscellaneous Trivia | website=[[National Hockey League|NHL]] | access-date=20 June 2014 | archive-date=1 September 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140901040718/http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26376 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://henrihenri.ca/en/historique.htm | title=About Henri Henri | publisher=Henri Henri | access-date=13 March 2012 | archive-date=26 April 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426061305/http://henrihenri.ca/en/historique.htm | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="GuelphS">{{Cite web | url=http://www.guelphstorm.com/article/2006-9-12_the_hat_trick_returns_to_its_hockey_birthplace | title=The Hat Trick Returns to Its Hockey Birthplace | publisher=GuelphStorm.com | access-date=21 October 2014 | archive-date=22 October 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022010621/http://www.guelphstorm.com/article/2006-9-12_the_hat_trick_returns_to_its_hockey_birthplace | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://torontoist.com/2013/04/toronto-invents-the-hat-trick/| title=Toronto Invents: The Hat Trick| publisher=Torontoist| access-date=21 October 2014| date=3 April 2013| archive-date=30 September 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930011149/http://torontoist.com/2013/04/toronto-invents-the-hat-trick/| url-status=live}}</ref>


In 1946, the Biltmore Hat Company in Guelph sponsored the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters, a junior affiliate team of the NHL's New York Rangers. When a Mad Hatters player recorded a Hat Trick, hats were thrown on the ice and the player received a new Biltmore fedora after the game to honor his accomplishment.<ref name="GuelphS"/>
In 1844, underarm bowler William Clark, playing for "England" against Kent, achieved a hat-trick spread over two innings, dismissing Kent batsman John Fagge twice within the hat-trick. Fagge batted at number 11 in the first innings and at number 3 in the second. This event is believed to be unique in first-class cricket.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/477665.html | publisher=CricInfo|accessdate=21 September 2010 | title =Stirling's gold, and the not-so-roaring forties}}</ref>


[[Wayne Gretzky]] holds the NHL record for the most hat tricks in a career with 50. [[Harry Hyland]] scored the league's first hat trick, in the league's first game on 18 December 1917, in which Hyland's [[Montreal Wanderers]] defeated the [[Toronto Arenas]] 10–9.<ref name="cbc2017">{{cite news|last1=Boswell|first1=Randy|title=Solving the mystery of the NHL's 1st game|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mystery-nhl-first-game-montreal-1.4049433|access-date=16 April 2017|publisher=CBC News|date=16 April 2017|archive-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319222610/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mystery-nhl-first-game-montreal-1.4049433|url-status=live}}</ref>
The most involved hat-trick was perhaps when Melbourne club cricketer Stephen Hickman, playing for Power House in March 2002, achieved a hat-trick spread over three overs, two days, two innings, involving the same batsman twice, and observed by the same non-striker, with the hat-trick ball being bowled from the opposite end to the first two. In the Mercantile Cricket Association C Grade semi-final at Fawkner Park, South Yarra, Gunbower United Cricket Club were 8 for 109 when Hickman came on to bowl his off spin. He took a wicket with the last ball of his third over and then bowled number 11 batsman Richard Higgins with the first ball of his next over to complete the Gunbower innings, leaving Chris Taylor the not out batsman. Power House scored 361, putting the game out of reach of Gunbower. In the second innings opener Taylor was joined by Higgins at the fall of the fourth wicket as Hickman returned to the attack. With his first ball, observed by an incredulous Taylor at the non-striker's end, he clean bowled Higgins, leaving Higgins with a pair of [[Duck (cricket)|golden ducks]].<ref>Warwick Franks, ''Australian Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 2002, Hardie Grant Books, p. 50.</ref>


====Variations====
A triple hat-trick was achieved by Scott Babot of Wainuiomata Cricket Club playing in the Senior 3 competition in New Zealand in 2008. It consisted of five wickets in five balls, across two innings and separated by seven days, as the match took place on consecutive Saturdays.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketwellington.co.nz/news/babot-triple-hat-trick/4390/article.aspx|title=Cricket Wellington – Babot: Triple Hat-trick|work=cricketwellington.co.nz|accessdate=25 October 2016|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205072757/http://www.cricketwellington.co.nz/news/babot-triple-hat-trick/4390/article.aspx|archivedate=5 December 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
{{Anchor|Natural hat trick|Natural hat-trick}}In ice hockey, a '''natural hat trick''' occurs when a player scores three consecutive goals, uninterrupted by any other player scoring for either team.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=543580| title=Hat tricks coming at a fairly frequent pace| author=Adam Kimmelman, Jonah Bruce| work=NHL Insider| publisher=[[National Hockey League|NHL]]| date=15 November 2010| access-date=13 March 2012| archive-date=17 January 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117144546/http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=543580| url-status=live}}</ref> The NHL record for the fastest natural hat trick is 21 seconds, set by [[Bill Mosienko]] in 1952 for the Chicago Blackhawks.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nhl/news/newstest.aspx?id=4202314 | title=Ryan's natural hat trick not enough as Ducks fall to Kings | publisher=The Sports Network | access-date=18 August 2011 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222193336/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nhl%2Fnews%2Fnewstest.aspx%3Fid%3D4202314 | archive-date=22 December 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>


A [[Gordie Howe hat trick]] is a [[tongue-in-cheek]] play on the feat. It is achieved by scoring a goal, getting an assist, and getting into a fight, all in the same game. Namesake [[Gordie Howe]] himself only recorded two in his NHL career. [[Rick Tocchet]] accomplished the feat 18 times in his career, the most in NHL history.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=514973 | title=Going inside the 'Gordie Howe Hat Trick' | author=John McGourty | work=Inside NHL | publisher=NHL | date=25 January 2010 | access-date=13 March 2012 | archive-date=17 January 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117150321/http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=514973 | url-status=live }}</ref>
Another triple hat trick was taken by Hanuman Choudhary when playing for the Cricket Association of Memphis team (CAM) against Wolfpacks in the Arkansas Tennessee Cricket League on 23 October 2016, in the semifinal of India Association of Memphis tournament in Memphis Premier League 3. His five consecutive dismissals helped close the innings from 142–5 to 142 all out.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.crichq.com/#matches/440300/1st_innings|title=CricHQ – Making cricket even better|work=crichq.com|accessdate=25 October 2016}}</ref>


In October 1995, [[Florida Panthers]] captain [[Scott Mellanby]] scored a [[rat trick]], the term coined by teammate [[John Vanbiesbrouck]]. Prior to the game, Mellanby killed a [[rat]] in the Panthers' locker room with his [[hockey stick]], and proceeded to score a pair of goals later that night.<ref name="Rat Pack">{{cite magazine |last=Montville |first=Leigh |url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1008229/index.htm |title=Rat Pack |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=10 June 1996 |access-date=29 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206082730/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1008229/index.htm |archive-date=6 December 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> When Mellanby scored a hat trick in a later game, some Florida fans threw plastic rats onto the ice, a tradition that continued for all Panthers' goals throughout the [[1996 Stanley Cup playoffs|1996 playoffs]]. Due to the resulting game delays caused by the necessary clean-up of the plastic rats, the league eventually banned the activity and modified Rule 63 to impose a [[Minor penalty#Minor penalty|minor penalty]] against the home team for a violation.<ref name="NHL_Rule">{{cite web|url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26355|access-date=13 June 2010|title=OFFICIAL NHL RULES – Rule 63, Delaying the Game|archive-date=10 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510004223/http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26355|url-status=live}}</ref> The more traditional practice of fans throwing hats onto the ice following genuine hat tricks remains exempt from this penalty.<ref name="NHL_Rule"/>
A 'perfect over' of 6 wickets taken with 6 consecutive balls was achieved by Australian Aled Carey on 21 January 2017 while bowling for his club Golden Point against East Ballarat. This very rare quadruple Hat-Trick consisted of 2 catches, an LBW and 3 bowled.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11789075|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|title=Six of best for Aussie club bowler Aled Carey|date=26 January 2017|accessdate=27 June 2017}}</ref>


==Darts==
===Lacrosse===
In [[lacrosse]], like other sports with goal scoring, hat tricks occur when a player scores three goals in one game. Fans rarely throw hats onto the playing surface to acknowledge them due to their frequent occurrences in a game. When a player scores six goals in one game, it is referred to as a '''sock trick<ref>{{cite web |author1=National Lacrosse League |title=Box Lacrosse 101 |url=https://www.nll.com/community/box-lacrosse-101/ |access-date=25 February 2024 |quote="WHAT IS A SOCK TRICK? … A sock trick is when a player scores six goals in a game. The legend goes that the Colorado Mammoth started the sock trick in 2004 when Gary Gait scored six goals in a game and the fans started throwing their socks on the turf."}}</ref>'''.
A hat-trick in darts is a score of three consecutive [[Bullseye (target)|bullseyes]], also known as the "Alan Evans Shot", after [[Alan Evans]] scored three bulleyes during a match on numerous occasions.<ref>{{cite web |last=Edwards |first=Dave |title=Darts: Sporting giants face-off |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/other-sport/darts-sporting-giants-face-off-1856049 |work=Wales Online |date=6 January 2011 |accessdate=4 January 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223094136/http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/other-sport/darts-sporting-giants-face-off-1856049 |archivedate=23 February 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>


==Hockey==
===Motor racing===
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[[File:HatTrick.jpg|thumb|right|Hats on the [[Verizon Center]] ice after [[Alexander Ovechkin|Alex Ovechkin]]'s hat trick, 7 February 2010.]]
In both [[field hockey]] and [[ice hockey]], a hat trick occurs when a player scores three goals in a single game. A hat trick, as it is known in its current form, culminates with fans throwing hats onto the ice from the stands. The tradition is said to have begun among fans in the [[National Hockey League]] around the 1950s.<ref name="guelph">{{Cite news|title=Guelph's tricky claim|url=http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/455592|accessdate=6 April 2009|date=21 March 2009|newspaper='[[Guelph Mercury]]'|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325053026/http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/455592|archivedate=25 March 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

There are several conflicting legends of how the "hat trick" was popularised in professional hockey. Most stories involve hats being awarded to any of the local players who scored three goals in a game. According to the [[NHL]], in the 1940s, a [[Toronto]] [[haberdasher]] used to give free hats to players with the [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] when they scored three goals in a game. <ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26376 | title=Miscellaneous Trivia | publisher=[[NHL]]}}</ref>

[[Montreal]] [[hatter]] Henri Henri makes a similar claim, that between 1950 and 1970 they would reward any NHL player who scored three or more goals in a game at the [[Montreal Forum]] with a free hat.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://henrihenri.ca/en/historique.htm | title=About Henri Henri | publisher=Henri Henri| accessdate=13 March 2012}}</ref>

Finally, in the 1950s, the [[Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters]] of the [[Ontario Hockey Association]], who were then a farm team of the NHL's [[New York Rangers]], were sponsored by Guelph-based Biltmore Hats, a leading manufacturer of hats with North American dominance. The sponsor would award any Madhatters player who scored three goals in a game with a new [[fedora]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.guelphstorm.com/article/2006-9-12_the_hat_trick_returns_to_its_hockey_birthplace | title=The Hat Trick Returns to Its Hockey Birthplace | publisher=GuelphStorm.com| accessdate=21 October 2014}}</ref>

In a slightly different account, the expression originates not with any member of a team, but with a particular player. According to legend, Chicago Blackhawks forward [[Alex Kaleta]] entered the shop of Toronto businessman Sammy Taft to purchase a new hat, but did not have enough money. Taft arranged a deal with Kaleta stipulating that if Kaleta scored three goals as he played the Toronto Maple Leafs that night, Taft would give him a free hat. That night, on 26 January 1946, Kaleta scored four goals against the Maple Leafs and Taft made good on his offer.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://torontoist.com/2013/04/toronto-invents-the-hat-trick/ | title=Toronto Invents: The Hat Trick|publisher=Torontoist| accessdate=21 October 2014}}</ref> This is the story accepted as the origin of the phrase by the Hockey Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.hhof.com/htmlResCentre/rc04.shtml | title=Frequently Asked Questions | publisher=[[Hockey Hall of Fame]] Resource Centre}}</ref>

While charming fables, all these explanations of the introduction of the term “hat trick” in hockey are too late to be true. On Dec. 8, 1933, the Winnipeg Free Press{{Full citation needed|date=May 2017}} describes a hockey game in which “Romeo Rivers, rugged wingman” for the Monarchs scored three goals in the same game, describing how “Romeo completed his ‘hat trick’” when he scored his third goal of the night after taking a pass from a teammate who had drawn the goalie out of position.

The Jan. 16, 1939 Lethbridge Herald (p.10){{Full citation needed|date=May 2017}} describes a hockey game in which the Lethbridge Maple Leafs defeated the Calgary Stampeders and Jimmie McIndoe of the Leafs “turned the hat trick, when he converted three straight consecutive passes” from a teammate.

By 1944, the term “hat trick” was so well established in hockey that the Winnipeg Free Press (Nov. 29, 1944, p.&nbsp;14){{Full citation needed|date=May 2017}} reports that “hockey’s traditional ‘hat-trick’ – the feat of scoring three goals in a single game – will receive official recognition from the Amateur Hockey Association” of the US by awarding a small silver derby hat to players to mark the accomplishment. Thus, by 1944 the term "hat trick" was common enough to be termed “traditional.” Given how frequently the words “hat trick” were used in sports reporting on cricket and soccer in the early 20th century, the term was probably routinely used in hockey by the early 1930s.

[[Wayne Gretzky]] holds the NHL record for the most hat tricks in a career with 50. [[Harry Hyland]] scored the league's first hat trick, in the league's very first game on December 19, 1917, in which Hyland's [[Montreal Wanderers]] defeated the [[Toronto Arenas]] 10–9.<ref name="cbc2017">{{cite news|last1=Boswell|first1=Randy|title=Solving the mystery of the NHL's 1st game|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mystery-nhl-first-game-montreal-1.4049433|accessdate=April 16, 2017|publisher=CBC News|date=April 16, 2017}}</ref>

===Variations===
A ''natural hat trick'' occurs when a player scores three consecutive goals, uninterrupted by any other player scoring for either team.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=543580 | title=Hat tricks coming at a fairly frequent pace| author=Adam Kimmelman, Jonah Bruce | work=NHL Insider|publisher =[[NHL]]|date=15 November 2010|accessdate=13 March 2012}}</ref>

The NHL record for the fastest natural hat trick is 21 seconds, set by [[Bill Mosienko]] in 1952 for the Chicago Blackhawks.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nhl/news/newstest.aspx?id=4202314 | title=Ryan's natural hat trick not enough as Ducks fall to Kings | publisher=The Sports Network | accessdate=18 August 2011 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222193336/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nhl%2Fnews%2Fnewstest.aspx%3Fid%3D4202314 | archivedate=22 December 2011 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

A [[Gordie Howe hat trick]] is a [[tongue-in-cheek]] play on the feat. It is achieved by scoring a goal, getting an assist, and getting in a fight, all in the same game. Namesake [[Gordie Howe]] himself only recorded two in his NHL career, as opposed to league leader [[Rick Tocchet]], who accrued 18 Gordie Howe hat tricks.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=514973 | title=Going inside the "Gordie Howe Hat Trick" | author= John McGourty| work=Inside NHL | publisher=NHL| date=25 January 2010|accessdate=13 March 2012}}</ref>

In December 1995, [[Florida Panthers]] captain [[Scott Mellanby]] scored a [[rat trick]], the term coined by teammate [[John Vanbiesbrouck]]. Prior to the game, Mellanby killed a [[rat]] in the Panthers' locker room with his [[hockey stick]], and proceeded to score a pair of goals later that night.<ref name="Rat Pack">{{cite news |last=Montville |first=Leigh |url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1008229/index.htm |title=Rat Pack |work=Sports Illustrated |date=10 June 1996 |accessdate=29 January 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206082730/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1008229/index.htm |archivedate=6 December 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> When Mellanby scored a hat trick in a later game, some Florida fans threw plastic rats on the ice, a tradition that continued for all Panthers' goals throughout the [[1996 Stanley Cup playoffs|1996 playoffs]]. Due to the resulting game delays caused by the necessary clean-up of the plastic rats, the league eventually banned the activity and modified Rule 63 to impose a [[Minor penalty#Minor penalty|minor penalty]] against the home team for a violation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=26355|accessdate=13 June 2010|title=OFFICIAL NHL RULES – Rule 63, Delaying the Game}}</ref> The more traditional practice of fans throwing hats on the ice following genuine hat tricks remains exempt from this penalty.

==Lacrosse==
A hat-trick in lacrosse is when a player scores three goals in one game.

==Marbles==
In [[marbles]], a hat-trick occurs when a player hits all marbles in a single turn.

==Motor racing==
In motor racing, three successive race wins, winning the same event three times in a row, or securing [[pole position]], fastest lap and race victory in one event may all be referred to as a hat-trick.
In motor racing, three successive race wins, winning the same event three times in a row, or securing [[pole position]], fastest lap and race victory in one event may all be referred to as a hat-trick.


===Rugby football===
==Poker==
{{See also|List of Rugby World Cup hat-tricks|List of Rugby League World Cup hat-tricks}}
Eliminating three players from a table with one hand in live [[poker]] play is sometimes referred to as a hat-trick and is incredibly rare. It is a much more frequent occurrence in online poker games, given the faster and greater number of hands played in online tournaments and the continuing presence of multiple "all-in" players during the early stages of tournament play as players look to build large chip stacks quickly and early.


In both codes of [[rugby football]] ([[rugby union]] and [[rugby league]]) a hat-trick is when a player scores three or more [[Try (rugby)|tries]] in a game. In rugby union, a related concept is that of a "full house" (scoring a try, [[Try (rugby)|conversion]], [[penalty (rugby)|penalty goal]], and [[drop goal]]) in a single game. When a player scores two tries, this is often referred to as a '''brace'''. As with association football, it is common to award the match ball to a player who scores a hat-trick.
Checking and raising an opponent three times,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.poker1.com/archives/32716/fast-2014-09-16-pokers-hat-trick|title=Fast 2014-09-16: Poker’s hat trick|date=2014-09-16|newspaper=Poker1.com {{!}} Mike Caro|access-date=2016-12-16}}</ref> as well as winning the European Poker Tour (EPT), World Series of Poker (WSOP), and World Poker Tour (WPT) in the same year,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pokersites.co.uk/pro-players/|title=Top 5 UK Poker Pros: Their Stories & Career Earnings|website=www.pokersites.co.uk|access-date=2016-12-16}}</ref> are also called hat tricks in poker.


[[Ken Irvine]] and [[Frank Burge]] both scored 16 hat-tricks in Australian first grade rugby league.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://afltables.com/rl/scorers/misc.html#mht|title=Rugby League Tables / Scoring Records|work=afltables.com|access-date=6 July 2015|archive-date=14 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714020249/http://afltables.com/rl/scorers/misc.html#mht|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Rugby football==


[[Shaun Johnson]] scored a hat-trick in under 6 minutes against the [[Canberra Raiders]] in 2013, and in the [[2017 Rugby League World Cup]], [[Valentine Holmes]] scored a double hat-trick (6 tries) against Fiji.
{{See also|List of Rugby World Cup hat-tricks}}


===Water polo===
In both codes of [[rugby football]] ([[rugby union]] and [[rugby league]]) a hat-trick is when a player scores three or more [[try|tries]] in a game. In rugby union, a related concept is that of a "full house" (scoring a try, [[Try#Conversion|conversion]], [[penalty (rugby)|penalty goal]], and [[drop goal]]) in a single game. When a player scored two tries, this is often referred to as a ''brace''. As with association football, it is common to award the match ball to a player who scores a hat-trick.
In [[water polo]], if a player scores thrice in a game, a hat-trick is scored.

[[Ken Irvine]] and [[Frank Burge]] both scored 16 hat-tricks in Australian first grade rugby league<ref>{{cite web|url=http://afltables.com/rl/scorers/misc.html#mht|title=Rugby League Tables / Scoring Records|work=afltables.com|accessdate=6 July 2015}}</ref>

[[Shaun Johnson]] scored a hat-trick in under 6 minutes against the [[Canberra Raiders]] in 2013, and in the [[2017 Rugby League World Cup]], Valentine Holmes scored a double hat-trick (6 tries) against Fiji.

==Scrabble==
In [[Scrabble]], a hat-trick occurs when a player plays three consecutive [[Bingo (Scrabble)|bingo]]s.

==Team handball/Water polo==
In [[team handball]] or [[water polo]], if a player scores three times in a game, a hat trick is made.

==Video games==
In many online video games, mostly [[first-person shooters]], the term has entered the players' vocabulary and occurs when a player achieves 3 difficult kills in a row (commonly headshots). Examples include ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', ''[[Quake series|Quake]]'', and ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'', among others.


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Latest revision as of 14:31, 1 December 2024

A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.[1]

Origin

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The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wickets with three consecutive deliveries. Fans held a collection for Stephenson, and presented him with a hat bought with the proceeds.[2][3][4] The term was used in print for the first time in 1865 in the Chelmsford Chronicle.[5][non-primary source needed] The term was eventually adopted by many other sports including hockey, association football,[6] Formula 1 racing, rugby, and water polo.

Use

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Association football

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A hat-trick[7][8] occurs in association football when a player scores three goals (not necessarily consecutive) in a single game,[9] whereas scoring two goals (in a single match) is called a brace.[10][11] In common with other official record-keeping rules, all goals scored during the regulation 90 minutes, plus extra time if required, are counted but goals in a penalty shootout are excluded from the tally.[12] The fastest recorded time to score a hat-trick is 70 seconds, a record set by Alex Torr in a Sunday league game in 2013.[13] The previous record of 90 seconds was held by Tommy Ross playing for Ross County against Nairn County on 28 November 1964.[14] The record of the youngest player ever to score a hat-trick[15] was set by Ntinos Pontikas in 1996,[16][17] while Pelé in 1958 became the youngest to achieve a hat-trick in the FIFA World Cup.[18][19]

After just 18 months and 17 days, the book on the greatest hat-trick of the 21st century was already closed.

— Rob Smyth of The Guardian on Rivaldo’s hat-trick for Barcelona against Valencia in June 2001.[20]

The first hat-trick[21] achieved in an international game was by Scottish player John McDougall, against England on 2 March 1878.[22] German Erwin Helmchen scored 141 official hat-tricks in his career with Pelé having 92.[23] American player Bert Patenaude scored the first hat-trick in the FIFA World Cup, against Paraguay in the inaugural event in 1930. Three hat-tricks have been scored in a World Cup final: by Geoff Hurst for England in the 1966 final against West Germany,[24] by Carli Lloyd for the USA against Japan in the 2015 Women's World Cup final and by Kylian Mbappé for France in the 2022 final against Argentina.[25] Lloyd's was, at 16 minutes, the fastest from kick-off in any World Cup match. However, the fastest World Cup hat-trick, as measured by time between goals, belongs to Fabienne Humm of Switzerland, who scored in the 47th, 49th and 52nd minutes against Ecuador in the 2015 group stage.[26]

Traditionally, a player who scores a hat-trick is allowed to keep the match ball as a memento.[27]

Perfect hat-trick

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Football has also extended the term, with a perfect hat-trick being when a player scores one right-footed goal, one left-footed goal and one headed goal within one match.[28][29][30] In Germany and Austria, the term (German: lupenreiner) Hattrick (flawless hat-trick) refers to when a player scores three goals in a row in one half without the half-time break or a goal scored by another player interrupting the performance.[31]

Baseball

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In the past, the term was occasionally used to describe when a player struck out three times in a baseball game, and the term golden sombrero was more commonly used when a player struck out four times in a game.

In recent years, hat trick has been more often used to describe when a player hits three home runs in a game.

For example, on 29 August 2015, Toronto Blue Jays fans celebrated Edwin Encarnación's third home run of the game by throwing hats onto the field, similar to the tradition in ice hockey.[32]

Cricket

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A hat-trick occurs in cricket when an individual bowler takes three wickets with consecutive deliveries in the same match.

Gaelic football

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In Gaelic football, a hat-trick can refer to goals or to points scored.

Eoin Liston scored a second-half hat-trick in the 1978 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.[33]

Michael Quinlivan scored a second-half hat-trick against Armagh in the final game of the 2017 National Football League to secure promotion to Division 2 for Tipperary.[34][35]

Jack McCaffrey's total of 1–3 in the 2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final (drawn game) involved a "classic hat-trick" of points, sent over the bar with fist and both feet.[36]

Cillian O'Connor's four goals (accompanied by nine points) in the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final at Croke Park broke the 5–3 record set by Johnny Joyce of Dublin in 1960 and matched with 3–9 by Rory Gallagher of Fermanagh in 2002 for the highest individual scorer in any championship football match.[37][38]

David Clifford scored a hat-trick against Galway in the opening round of the 2021 National Football League.[39]

Gridiron football

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The term hat-trick is only occasionally used in gridiron football, usually for rhetorical flourish in sports writing. Usually an offensive player scoring three touchdowns in a single game is awarded a hat-trick.

Additionally, the term is applied to a defensive player, often an edge rusher, who in a single scrimmage play performs a sack which causes the quarterback to fumble, and then recovers that fumble. [40]

Handball

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In handball, if a player scores thrice in a game, a hat-trick is made.

Hockey

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Hats on the Verizon Center ice after Alex Ovechkin's hat trick, 7 February 2010

In field hockey and ice hockey, a hat trick occurs when a player scores three goals in a single game. A hat trick in ice hockey, as it is known in its current form, culminates with fans throwing hats onto the ice from the stands. The tradition is said to have begun among fans in the National Hockey League around the 1950s,[41] with several conflicting legends from the Canadian cities of Toronto, Montreal, and Guelph of various hatmakers offering a free hat to players who scored a hat trick.[42][43][44][45]

In 1946, the Biltmore Hat Company in Guelph sponsored the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters, a junior affiliate team of the NHL's New York Rangers. When a Mad Hatters player recorded a Hat Trick, hats were thrown on the ice and the player received a new Biltmore fedora after the game to honor his accomplishment.[44]

Wayne Gretzky holds the NHL record for the most hat tricks in a career with 50. Harry Hyland scored the league's first hat trick, in the league's first game on 18 December 1917, in which Hyland's Montreal Wanderers defeated the Toronto Arenas 10–9.[46]

Variations

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In ice hockey, a natural hat trick occurs when a player scores three consecutive goals, uninterrupted by any other player scoring for either team.[47] The NHL record for the fastest natural hat trick is 21 seconds, set by Bill Mosienko in 1952 for the Chicago Blackhawks.[48]

A Gordie Howe hat trick is a tongue-in-cheek play on the feat. It is achieved by scoring a goal, getting an assist, and getting into a fight, all in the same game. Namesake Gordie Howe himself only recorded two in his NHL career. Rick Tocchet accomplished the feat 18 times in his career, the most in NHL history.[49]

In October 1995, Florida Panthers captain Scott Mellanby scored a rat trick, the term coined by teammate John Vanbiesbrouck. Prior to the game, Mellanby killed a rat in the Panthers' locker room with his hockey stick, and proceeded to score a pair of goals later that night.[50] When Mellanby scored a hat trick in a later game, some Florida fans threw plastic rats onto the ice, a tradition that continued for all Panthers' goals throughout the 1996 playoffs. Due to the resulting game delays caused by the necessary clean-up of the plastic rats, the league eventually banned the activity and modified Rule 63 to impose a minor penalty against the home team for a violation.[51] The more traditional practice of fans throwing hats onto the ice following genuine hat tricks remains exempt from this penalty.[51]

Lacrosse

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In lacrosse, like other sports with goal scoring, hat tricks occur when a player scores three goals in one game. Fans rarely throw hats onto the playing surface to acknowledge them due to their frequent occurrences in a game. When a player scores six goals in one game, it is referred to as a sock trick[52].

Motor racing

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In motor racing, three successive race wins, winning the same event three times in a row, or securing pole position, fastest lap and race victory in one event may all be referred to as a hat-trick.

Rugby football

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In both codes of rugby football (rugby union and rugby league) a hat-trick is when a player scores three or more tries in a game. In rugby union, a related concept is that of a "full house" (scoring a try, conversion, penalty goal, and drop goal) in a single game. When a player scores two tries, this is often referred to as a brace. As with association football, it is common to award the match ball to a player who scores a hat-trick.

Ken Irvine and Frank Burge both scored 16 hat-tricks in Australian first grade rugby league.[53]

Shaun Johnson scored a hat-trick in under 6 minutes against the Canberra Raiders in 2013, and in the 2017 Rugby League World Cup, Valentine Holmes scored a double hat-trick (6 tries) against Fiji.

Water polo

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In water polo, if a player scores thrice in a game, a hat-trick is scored.

See also

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