By the numbers, baseball’s rarest feats are actually no big deal for the Diamondbacks.

Franchise has highest rate of rare feats in MLB

Paul Goldschmidt and David Peralta almost hit for the cycle this week? That’s about right.

Watch enough games involving the team that plays down on East Jefferson, and you’re bound to see something fluky enough to give stat geeks goosebumps and make fans save their scorecards.

The Arizona Diamondbacks have the highest rate of cycles, immaculate innings, perfect games and no-hitters in all of Major League Baseball, according to a Ryan Serpico, a number-cruncher at OnlineGambling.ca, a guy we can talk to now that the Supreme Court says sports betting is legal.

One of these four feats comes every 1.67 years for the Diamondbacks, the study shows. Compare that to the pitiful Padres, at the bottom of the list with one every 16.33 seasons.

Serpico picked the quirky quadruplet more or less at random.

“There was no scientific method for picking these. These were just four that I was familiar with that I thought were interesting,” he said.

Turns out that because he just liked these feats better than, say, triple plays, natural cycles or four-homer games, it turned out to be good for the Diamondbacks.

Howrare?

Serpico’s methodology was simple: total events divided by franchise tenure equals frequency. This way he could measure older franchises against newer clubs.

“For example, I took the total number of no-hitters and divided it by the amount of time each franchise has been in (the big leagues), and that gave me a rate,” Serpico said. “So, I could compare the Marlins to the Red Sox, who I can then compare to the Diamondbacks.”

Before we go too much further, let’s look at how rare these rarities really are.

A little more than three-quarters of the way through the season, there have been more than 3,600 chances for a cycle, perfect game or no-hitter and more than 32,000 chances for an immaculate inning. There have been four immaculate innings and three total no-hitters – two solo, one combined.

Boston’s Mookie Betts hit a single, double, triple and a homer against Toronto a couple of weeks ago, giving him the 320th cycle in MLB history. That’s 320 in nearly 150 years of big-league record keeping.

Think about that in terms of just the past 20 years. With 162 games times 30 teams, that’s more than 97,000 opportunities.

Since we don’t want anyone’s head to explode, we’ll stop here with the math and switch to anecdotes.

Eschewing computing

Peralta and Goldschmidt were each a triple short of the cycle in wins over the Angels at Chase Field this week.

The Angels haven’t had a cycle since Mike Trout in 2013.

And the TV color guy doing the game Tuesday, Mark Grace, was the last Chicago Cub to go for the cycle. It happened May 9, 1993. Ketel Marte wasn’t even born yet.

Anyway, Diamondbacks hitters, according to the study, produce a cycle every 3.3 seasons. That’s second behind the Rockies at one every 3.1 seasons.

The home team is due. Arizona hasn’t had a cycle since Aaron Hill did it against Milwaukee on June 29, 2012.

Amazingly, it was Hill’s second time pulling off the rarity in 11 days, making him just the second big-leaguer to hit for two cycles in a season since 1900.

The winning pitcher when Hill did it the first time was Wade Miley. He’s the last Diamondback to pull off another of Serpico’s superlatives, the immaculate inning, where a pitcher strikes out the side on nine pitches.

Miley’s mow downs came in October 2012, just four months after Hill’s hits.

Thanks to Miley, Byung-Hyun Kim and Randy Johnson, immaculate inningscome once every 6.7 years for Arizona, putting the club in a tie for first with Tampa Bay.

‘It was awesome’

But the Diamondbacks could be ready to surge ahead. One of the immaculate Rays, Brad Boxberger, plays here now.

“It was awesome,” he said of his moment of glory in 2014 against Baltimore. “I got out of the inning.”

He might as well have been describing pizza toppings for as excited as he was.

Boxberger said he had no idea what he had pulled off until later.

“The media came up to me and asked me about it,” he said. “That’s kinda when it sunk in.”

The Diamondbacks also are in first with one perfect game every 20 years. (Thanks again to the Big Unit.)

With two no-hitters, the Diamondbacks get one every 10 years, putting them at 13th in rate, the only category in which they’re outside the top 10.

If it seems like the rarity rate record should be a big deal, that’s because it should be, just not to players or managers. They’re busy.