Baseball peeps - what is an unassisted triple play, please?
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JenP - Aug 23, 2009 2:57:06 pm PDT #5212 of 30001
brenda m - Aug 23, 2009 2:57:19 pm PDT #5213 of 30001
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Fuse is showing a concert Kanye West did earlier this year at the Chicago Theater for CPS students. It's cool to have the chance to see it, but I'm a little agog at how out of tune he is much of the time and how much sound correction they must do on his albums.
It's not even a criticism, exactly. What makes Kanye special isn't the purity of his voice. (And in fact, watching this has made me head over to iTunes to fill in the holes in my collection.) Still, it's a little startling.
Hil R. - Aug 23, 2009 2:58:48 pm PDT #5214 of 30001
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Dana - Aug 23, 2009 3:00:17 pm PDT #5215 of 30001
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Baseball peeps - what is an unassisted triple play, please?
I'm assuming it's one person making three outs all by himself. Maybe catching a ball, stepping on a base to get the runner out, and tagging another runner?
JenP - Aug 23, 2009 3:02:55 pm PDT #5216 of 30001
Ah, OK. I was thinking it was one guy doing it all, but I couldn't make a viable picture out of it. There was way too much running around in my scenario.
SuziQ - Aug 23, 2009 3:04:58 pm PDT #5217 of 30001
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Go Dana. That is the typical way to get an unassisted triple play. I know Miguel Tejada achieved this when he was with the A's.
Dana - Aug 23, 2009 3:05:56 pm PDT #5218 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
All unassisted triple plays except one have taken this form: the infielder catches a line drive (one out), steps on a base to double off a runner (two outs), and tags another runner on the runner's way to the next base (three outs) (almost universally, the "next base" is the same base on which the infielder stepped to record the second out.)
I wikipedia'd it.
erikaj - Aug 23, 2009 3:06:45 pm PDT #5219 of 30001
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Motherfucker. I guess I'ma have to rip off someone else besides Cintra now.
JenP - Aug 23, 2009 3:08:13 pm PDT #5220 of 30001
I think maybe the Phillies just (or, whenever the game was) beat the Mets that way. I'm inferring from a Facebook post, so, you know...
ETA: Thanks, Dana!
amych - Aug 23, 2009 3:08:17 pm PDT #5221 of 30001
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There was way too much running around in my scenario.
There's almost never any running at all in the actual version - the fielder is generally right at a base when the ball is caught, and one of the two runners is helpfully trying to scramble the hell back there after leaving the base prematurely. It's beautifully subtle to see in action, once you realize what's going on.