Unassisted Triple Play

[KitchenWitch]

:wow:

[crimsonblue]

1. bullshit.

never been done. impossible. man will never do it. Say what? some guy did?

[KitchenWitch]

2. Asdrubel Cabrera

14th unassisted triple play in major league history.

[crimsonblue]

6. 3rd Indians player. Most of any team.. Have also had it happen 3 times to them

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. One of baseball's great oddities:

Fourteen in the history of the game, and two of them happened on consecutive days — May 30, 1927, by Cubs shortstop Jimmy Cooney, and the next day by Tigers first baseman Johnny Neun.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats8.shtml

Also, I read this in "Baseball Digest" a few eons ago but forget the details — once in the minors, an outfielder made one. :wow:

[KitchenWitch]

12. An OUTFIELDER!

I would think it impossible for a first baseman to do it, much less an outfielder. They must have been playing in.

[Oeditpus Rex]

About the only way it could happen

would be if somebody hit a gork to center field and one of the outfielders snagged it off the grass on the dead run and kept going to second.

Ty Cobb made a few unassisted double plays from right field.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Who?

What game? When?

[KitchenWitch]

4. Asdrubel Cabrera

Cleveland second baseman.

In the second game of the Cleveland vs Toronto game.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Just watched the video

Made-to-freakin' order and served up by a carhop. One of the announcers called it before it happened. :D

Dunno if this link'll work, but... http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2008_05_12_tormlb_clemlb_2

[KitchenWitch]

9. Beautiful play. Absolute masterpiece.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Almost

It'd be a masterpiece if it was against the Jankees. :evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

14. LOL

:evilgrin:

[siligut]

22. Thanks! That was fun, I just love all the excitement. nt

[Ptah]

5. ESPN link

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3393381

[Drum]

8. That was great!

And it looked so...simple. Really neat. :)

[Scout]

13. help! i wanna see it, and none of the links posted give me a video...

what am i doing wrong?

[KitchenWitch]

15. What browser are you using?

[Scout]

16. Firefox n/t

[KitchenWitch]

17. You may need to enable popups on the link with the video.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Here's the long way:

First, go here: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/scoreboard/20080512.html

Then, at the second Toronto-Cleveland line score, click the "Gameday" link.

Scroll down just below the video screen to the play-by-play. Click the "5" for the fifth inning. It was the last play (obviously) of the top of the fifth. There's a button to click for the video.

[SallyMander]

19. Wait... i don't get it

Halp!

He catches the ball... so the batter's out. Then he steps on second, so the guy trying to steal is out. But what's the third out? I see he tags the player near him, but wasn't that the same player who was trying to steal?

:dunce:

[KitchenWitch]

20. Runners are at first and second.

Runners go as the ball is hit. Fielder catches ball, Runner who previously was on second cannot get back before the fielder steps on the bag, runner coming from first runs into the tag at second.

[SallyMander]

21. Aha! Gotcha

I thought the tagged runner had been on second... wow!

:applause: