Just guessing here, but the expression “Jewish luck” seems perfectly exhibited.
ETA: Fun thread.
One of the players featured in the baseball oral history “The Glory of Their Times” was Bob O’Farrell, the Cardinals catcher who threw Ruth out at second on that play. O’Farrell later asked one of the Yankees why Ruth had tried to steal. Supposedly, Alexander’s pitching that day was so sharp that the Yankees didn’t think they’d be likely to get two hits in a row off him. So, with two outs, Ruth figured he’d better be in scoring position if they hit Alex at all.
In August 2006 Sean Casey was thrown out at first by a left fielder.
He hit a line drive that the third baseman jumped for and Casey thought he had caught the ball.
Casey the stopped running and almost headed back to the dugout when he heard a commotion from the stands. The third baseman had missed the ball. Left fielder Pedro Ozuna picked up the ball and fired to first, nailing Casey by a step.
The official scoring went 5-7-3, but I have seen the replay and don’t really think the third baseman ever touched the ball.
As far as I can tell it’s the only time a left fielder has thrown out a hitter at first base.
Jose Bautista actually did it AGAIN the next night- he threw Omar INfante, who thought he had fouled the ball off. A 9-3 putout from the same right fielder on consecutive nights has never happened before.
So what you’re saying is that the Blue Jays are 0-2 when Bautista records a 9-3 putout. :smack:
Schaefer was not thrown out on that play. He got himself in a rundown and the runner on third, Clyde Milan, was thrown out at home.
Walk-off triples are rare, because the batter usually doesn’t run out the hit. The condition is that the winning run is on first, and the batter runs three bases. Usually if the batter hits a gapper, he might round second, see that the winning run has scored, and stop. He must actually run to third base to be credited with the triple, but he usually doesn’t run to third. There are other walk-off triples, however, due to the pre-1920 rule in which batters were credited with only the bases required to score the winning run when they hit the ball out of the park on the final play. Babe Ruth hit one such triple in 1918.
He for some reason never got into the boxscore, but the Indians used one a third base for a few innings in, I believe, 1948.
In looking for specifics on this, this is another case where the legend doesn’t fit the facts. While the Indians were using the shift on Ted Williams in a game in 1946, a midget went out on the field to play third base (picking up the glove of the Red Sox third baseman – teams left gloves on the field in those days.) He was removed from the field before a pitch was thrown.
Ok, not baseball, but there was a walk-off strike out in a girls softball state championship game.
Dave McAnally is the only pitcher to hit a grand slam in a World Series Game. Orioles vs Reds in 1970. Game 3.
The 1999 Grand Slam Single - although I’ll admit that was more an umpire ruling than a play.
Let’s go Mets!
Three errors on one play. Wikipedia says it’s happened three times. I think I saw one of those.
I was at the old Busch Stadium, some time in the late 1980’s ~ early 1990’s. Don’t remember who the Cards were playing. Anyway, the opposing batter hits a lazy popup in the general direction of third base. The third baseman (I’m pretty sure it was Todd Zeile) parks under the ball… and into and out of his glove it goes. Error #1. The opposing batter, thinking he was going to be out, sees what happened and guns it for first. The third-baseman fires the ball toward first… and over the first-baseman’s head. Error #2. The baserunner rounds second while the first-baseman retrieves the ball. The baserunner approaches third, and the first-baseman fires it toward third base. The third-baseman drops the ball, Error #3.