# Link me to some interesting baseball plays **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-some-interesting-baseball-plays/410648 "2007-07-05T20:45:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-some-interesting-baseball-plays/410648/21 "2007-07-08T07:00:10Z")
[QUOTE=Capa84] since youtube has to take down MLB videos, I guess you can watch this recreation of the game 6 1986 Mets/RedSox worldseries: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JArXRxuVTgY/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/JArXRxuVTgY?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [/QUOTE] That… …is brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-some-interesting-baseball-plays/410648/22 "2007-07-08T07:25:38Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] [Here is an unassisted triple play](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4721116429242769084&q=tulowitzki+triple+play&total=14&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1) from earlier this year, one of only 13 in MLB history. [/QUOTE] By my count Tulowitzki made five outs on the play. Catch, touched second, tagged the runner coming from first, went back and touched second again, and then, just for luck, threw to first. His mind must have been just whirling. ---
**Author:** ![Trillionaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-some-interesting-baseball-plays/410648/23 "2007-07-08T10:49:49Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] By my count Tulowitzki made five outs on the play. Catch, touched second, tagged the runner coming from first, went back and touched second again, and then, just for luck, threw to first. His mind must have been just whirling. [/QUOTE] As a non-baseball fan, can someone explain to me exactly what happened here? I get that there were three outs on the same play, and that one of them was the batter who was caught, but I don’t get what’s happening with the fielder touching the base and tagging the runner. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-some-interesting-baseball-plays/410648/24 "2007-07-08T12:11:38Z")
[QUOTE=Trillionaire] As a non-baseball fan, can someone explain to me exactly what happened here? I get that there were three outs on the same play, and that one of them was the batter who was caught, but I don’t get what’s happening with the fielder touching the base and tagging the runner. [/QUOTE] Guy on second takes off toward third and is out due to caught ball and second base tagged. The base runner from first was tagged out while running towards second. He would’ve also been out if the ball had been thrown to first base, but this negates the extremely rare unassisted triple play. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-some-interesting-baseball-plays/410648/25 "2007-07-08T14:14:51Z")
Just in case that wasn’t clear, if the ball is caught on the fly, the runners must make it back to their bases before the base or the runner is tagged out. On this play, the guy who caught the ball managed to tag one base (getting the runner on second out) and then tag one runner (getting the runner on first out). ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-some-interesting-baseball-plays/410648/26 "2007-07-08T16:18:44Z")
This is a great minor league clip from 1991. The outfielder is named Rodney McCray [Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mPMfiuCO-E) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-me-to-some-interesting-baseball-plays/410648.md?page=1)