The Red Sox just turned a triple play!

I’m mostly working off logic here. A hit-and-run play with first and second and none out is a pretty common use of the play, which is partly aimed at avoiding a double-play on a ground ball, but combined with a lineout to a middle infielder will result in a TP.

On the major league level, it’s almost hard to see how a line-drive to a middle infielder (not exactly a wild-and-wooly scenario) wouldn’t result in an unassisted TP. If everyone does what he’s supposed to do, and a linedrive happens, that’s your likeliest outcome.

Not true.

20 perfect games, 15 unassisted triple plays.

How does that qualify as not rarer? Isn’t 15 fewer than 20?

I’m an idiot.

“Ray. The restaurant’s on fire. I’ll get back to you.”

As an aside, you might enjoy watching this triple play which occurred in Triple-A ball yesterday.

That was the craziest triple play I’ve ever seen. Awesome.