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Title: unassisted triple play
Post by: BatGirl on May 12, 2008, 10:16:18 pm
inconceivable!

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080512&content_id=2686835&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
Title: Re: unassisted triple play
Post by: Towlie on May 12, 2008, 10:34:48 pm
this reminded me of that bagwell unassisted double play he made. where the guy popped up a bunt but baggy let it drop so he picked it up tagged the guy at first and stepped on the bag, inning over.
Title: Re: unassisted triple play
Post by: mihoba on May 12, 2008, 11:13:08 pm
inconceivable!

Very cool! Only the 14th time in mlb history, including once last year (Tulo) and once in the World Series (1920).
Title: Re: unassisted triple play
Post by: Duman on May 13, 2008, 07:14:34 am
Very cool! Only the 14th time in mlb history, including once last year (Tulo) and once in the World Series (1920).

The local paper had a list of all of them.  There were 6 of them in the 20's, and there have now been 4 in the 2000's.  Isn't odd how they come in bunches. BTW the guy who did the one in the WS also hit a Grand Slam that game. (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats8.shtml)
Title: Re: unassisted triple play
Post by: ValpoCory on May 13, 2008, 09:15:31 am
this reminded me of that bagwell unassisted double play he made. where the guy popped up a bunt but baggy let it drop so he picked it up tagged the guy at first and stepped on the bag, inning over.

Totally different plays.  Bags' was much more cerebral than Cabrera's.
Title: Re: unassisted triple play
Post by: Frobie on May 13, 2008, 09:37:01 am
The local paper had a list of all of them.  There were 6 of them in the 20's, and there have now been 4 in the 2000's.  Isn't odd how they come in bunches. BTW the guy who did the one in the WS also hit a Grand Slam that game. (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats8.shtml)

Mr. Picky would like to point out that while the unassisted triple play and the first grand slam in WS history happened in the same game, Bill Wambsganss did the former while Elmer Smith did the latter. 

linkified (http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1920/B10100CLE1920.htm)

Still an amazing coincidence, though.
Title: Re: unassisted triple play
Post by: Duman on May 13, 2008, 10:20:23 am
Mr. Picky would like to point out that while the unassisted triple play and the first grand slam in WS history happened in the same game, Bill Wambsganss did the former while Elmer Smith did the latter. 

linkified (http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1920/B10100CLE1920.htm)

Still an amazing coincidence, though.
Yep, read it wrong the first time in the write up.
Title: Re: unassisted triple play
Post by: pravata on May 13, 2008, 10:31:12 am
Totally different plays.  Bags' was much more cerebral than Cabrera's.

The runner was standing on first when Bagwell tagged him and then touched first.  Umps had to confer for 5 minutes before they verified among themselves that he did it in the correct order.  Bagwell already knew he had.