That’s four. The unofficial triple crown doesn’t include the Daytona 500, because F1 drivers just don’t go to stock car racing.
No F1 team would let one of its drivers have a Sunday off in the middle of the season to go race a stock car, he means. Beyond that, NASCAR is still (rightly or wrongly) seen as a bit of a joke. Juan Montoya is the only driver of any repute to go to NASCAR from F1 (and he went to CART/IRL first).
The Monaco Grand Prix is usually on the same weekend as the Indy 500, too, for what it’s worth.
When Ryan Howard came to the plate on Friday night with the bases loaded and a chance to hit a second grand slam, I wondered if anyone had done this before… I was surprised to learn that 13 MLB players have hit 2 slams in one game
The single most amazing thing I have seen in live sport in my entire life.
Still, it’s a hard push to say that Carlisle were at the “highest tier” in their market, as we were in tier 4 of the pyramid at the time (for the non-soccer fans here, England’s top 4 divisions are pro - and clubs who play in them are known as league clubs - the levels below being non-league).
In the top tier in England, Peter Schmichel scored for Aston Villa from a corner in a 3-2 Premier League defeat at Everton (this is obviously after he left Manchester United, so late on in his career). Schmichel would routinely come up for corners where Manchester United needed a goal in the last seconds - he’s in the box for Sheringham’s equaliser in the 1999 European Cup Final for instance. He also scored in a UEFA Cup game for Manchester United (from memory).
Schmichel has also scored for Denmark - though this was from a penalty in a friendly near the end of his career - presumably as a “thank you” for his service.
Which would make a great goal for some future player to get a birdie or better on all 18 holes in a single round of play…shooting no more than a 54 on a par 72. That would be pretty awesome to see that in our lifetime…not very likely though.
There is a way for a triple play to be recorded without the ball being hit: on a X-2 count (usually 3-2, or full) with runners on first and third, the pitcher strikes the batter out while the runner on first tries to steal second. When the catcher makes the throw to second, the runner on third tries to steal home. If both baserunners are tagged out, it’s a triple play. That’s only happened once, by the Seattle Mariners in 2008.
But in the spirit of this thread, there is also a way for a triple play to be recorded without a *fielder *touching the ball: if there are runners on first and second with no outs, the batter needs to hit a catchable infield pop fly. He’d be out number one for the infield fly rule. The runner on first would have to pass the runner on second, making him out number two. And finally, the runner on second would have to get hit by the ball as it lands for the third out. *That *one’s never happened, and the bush-league nature of the second and third outs in that scenario lead me to believe it never will at any level of professional ball.
Nor has any San Diego Padre pitcher in their 43 years. Boston’s Jason Varitek has caught 4 himself, and that record should be 5.[/QUOTE
They could have had one in 1970 but manager Preston Gomez removed pitcher Clay Kirby for a pinch hitter in the 8th inning because he was losing despite not having given up a hit. Ironically four years later as Houston Astros manager, Gomez had the same decision to make with Don Wilson and made it. It failed both times.Preston Gómez - Wikipedia
There’s a way to make four outs in an inning, which apparently did happen once in Cuba. Bases loaded, batter lines out to 3B or SS, around the horn for what appears to be a triple play, while runner leaving third crosses home. 3 outs so far. Fielding team successfully appeals at third, saying the runner left before the liner was caught, so the runner is out and the run doesn’t count. 4 outs.
In this case, though, no put-out is recorded (though the pitcher still gets credited with a strikeout). In the case Elvis described, there are four actual recorded outs. It has happened at least twice in major league ball that I can recall. I know once was in a Cincinnati Reds game. It was probably in the 1980’s. The other would have been in the early nineties, but I don’t recall the teams involved.
After looking for more information on the teams involved in the “four out” scenarios, I found this.
Apparently rule 7.10 in MLB says:
Appeal plays may require an umpire to recognize an apparent “fourth out.”
But goes on to say:
If the third out is made during a play in which an appeal play is sustained on another runner, the appeal play decision takes precedence in determining the out.
So, I may be wrong about 4 actual outs being recorded.
For a negative feat, no batter has ever made all three outs in one inning. The odds against it are overwhelming, since it requires (at minimum) 19 men to come to bat which in turn requires (minimum) 13 runs to be scored, but given enough time it will happen someday.
I wonder if it has ever happened in the minor leagues.
I wonder if there’s ever been a “perfect game” in football, defined by the following: the winning team scores a touchdown & extra point on every single possession, allows no first downs, and allows no points. I’m sure it’s happened at some level, but has it ever happened in college or NFL?
In theory, there could be any number of strikeouts recorded in an inning, if the catcher keeps dropping the third strike. Five in an inning hasn’t happened in the major leagues - it’s happened in the minors, and I’ve heard several times that Joe Niekro did it in a spring training game.
The unofficial triple crown doesn’t include the Daytona 500, because F1 drivers just don’t go to stock car racing.