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Related: About this forumThis Triple Play Confused The Hell Out Of Everyone Involved
Triple plays are always cool, but the best instances are the ones that leave everyonefielders, runners, fans, broadcasterskind of confused about what exactly just happened. Last nights Angels-Rangers game gave us one of those.
With the bases loaded and no outs in the top of the fourth, David Fletcher scorched a ground ball to Jurickson Profar at third base, setting off one of the quickest, oddest triple plays youll ever see:
Things went haywire because the runner on third, Taylor Ward, initially thought Profar had caught the ball in the air and tried to stay on third. After realizing that the ball had been played on a hop and that Profar had stepped on third base to force one out, Ward just kind of wobbled towards home and allowed himself to be tagged out. Then Profar quickly tossed the ball to second and completed the triple play with another force out, but Rougned Odor, also confused about what was going on, ran down Kole Calhoun to tag him in the baseline, even though Calhoun was already out. And look at Profar after he throws to Odorafter seeing the runner from second, who was already out on the first force play, coming towards him he panics and calls for Odor to throw the ball back to him. Everyone was so confused!
With good reason, though. According to STATS, a triple play in which the batter was not retired hasnt occurred since June 3, 1912. Baseball: a pretty cool sport.
Video at link: https://deadspin.com/this-triple-play-confused-the-hell-out-of-everyone-invo-1828413719
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GusBob
(7,286 posts)I guess everyone thought it was a line drive out
ProfessorGAC
(65,103 posts)It wasn't until the slow mo that i realized that it wasn't a line drive. Then it all started to make sense, but in realtime, i can see how everybody involved was shaky.