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?
I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Aug 23, 2009 3:00:17 pm PDT #5215 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
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
Always Anti-fascist!
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
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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.
JenP - Aug 23, 2009 3:11:01 pm PDT #5222 of 30001
Yeah, I knew I couldn't be thinking of it right... but my versions were kind of funny. I haven't watched baseball in a long, long time, so I had failure of imagination. Or, accurate imagination, anyway. That's a sweet play.
Barb - Aug 23, 2009 3:20:24 pm PDT #5223 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
I've never gone back to re-read the Tales series, despite my love of Mouse and desire to go back and spend more time with him, because the end of Mary Ann depressed me so deeply.
The first three books are the ones I reread most frequently. I adore them.
Have you read Michael Tolliver Lives, JZ?
Jesse - Aug 23, 2009 3:29:17 pm PDT #5224 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not JZ, but I have. I thought it was too much TMI about Maupin, really.