As a UK resident, baseball is rarely shown on TV. It isn't until you see a game live and the distance the ball is thrown with accuracy that you realise how impressive these triple plays are.
please don't comment false information if you don't know what you're talking about. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_positions 5-4-3 is correct. 6 is the shortstop.
Yeah, I agree, it's pretty hard not to get excited when you see a triple play. It just sucks when your team is on the receiving end but it's still great baseball.
2:43 the plate umpire clearly signaled a dead ball before changing his mind and signaling it in play. Real poor job there. No wonder the runners stayed put.
I had trouble seeing what was going on. So the umpire thought the ball was foul and called dead ball, but then realized it was fair and let it play out?
Yeah, it seems like it should have just remained a foul ball even if it wasn't. I wonder what the rules say, or what the convention is, in dealing with a situation like this?
And he was right at first. That ball was clearly in the batters box. Either way, once you've made a call like that you can't let a continuation happen. The runners were completely defenseless.
The ball being in the batter's box doesn't automatically make it foul. The foul lines extend into the batter box, even if it's not drawn explicitly, and that's what determines fair or foul.
Love that tag of Barry Bonds by Mickey Morandini just before the 5-minute mark! Jeff King hit into that one. The similarly-named Jeff Kent hit into a triple play against the Phillies a few years later - and Bonds, now a Giant, was on base for that one, two.
One time we were in the championship it was the bottom of the 9th we were down by 1 and the bases loaded 0 outs and my friend was up He hit a line drive everybody ran and we got triple played on
Realizing that triple plays are not so much of a rarity in baseball. I remember hearing about it first in the original "Odd Couple" movie and it was portrayed as a once in a lifetime event.
I was at that game where Furcal got that against st Louis. I remember everyone around us was just silent like what the hell happened lol. Ironically Furcal went to play for the cards not too long after. Good memories even tho it was against my team lol
I don't follow baseball, so I'm not sure of the what's going on with some of these - I'm guessing that at 1:28, if the batter is caught, the runners go back to their bases, so the triple play is batter caught out, the runner who was on second base (& presumably on his way to third) is out when dude who catches the ball puts his foot on the bag & the runner on first is tagged out by the same dude with the ball in his hand as he was on his way to second. Is that right?
RobertDeville yeah, if you catch it before it hits the ground the batter is out. the runners can't leave their base until its caught, but you are allowed to stand off the base, you just have to go back and tag it before running for the next base. So when the fielder near second base catches a line drive, which is hard to tell if it has bounced from a runners perspective, its easy for the fielder to just tag 2nd, making the runner who just left it out, then he can either tag the runner from 1st or throw to 1st
Cheers Nabre Labre, much appreciated - I guess that to tag a runner out, the man on base has to have his foot or some other part of his body on the bag with the ball in his hand - it seems that sometimes touching the base isn't needed (2 guys chasing down a runner between bases) & other times it is (to tag a runner out before he gets to the base) - is that right as well & if so, why is there a difference?
You can only tag the base with your foot on a "force out". So when the bases are empty, the batter can only run to 1st base, all you have to do is hold the ball and step on first base, and he's out. As long as there are no empty bases behind the runner, tagging the base in front is a force out, even home plate. If there is a runner on 1st and 3rd and the ball is hit, you can tag 2nd for a force out. If the runner on 3rd runs in this situation, there is no one in front or directly behind him, you will have to tag the runner for an out. You can only tag the runner with whichever hand is holding the ball. Sometimes a runner will get stuck between two bases and the fielders will chase him throwing the ball to the guy on the other side, this is a "pickle" or a "run-down"
It's funny, I was watching another video about "Heads-up Baserunning", and in several of them, a runner who started on second rounded third and scooted home as the play was being made at first. Often, the first baseman just was slow to respond or not paying attention. And I wondered, that looks awesome, but how often does a guy get thrown out trying that? We saw it a few times in this video!
in little league, the other pitcher on my team caught a fly ball (i think), then ran the bases himself to tag the runners out because he knew they wouldn't catch the throw lol
wait what? I must have missed this.. RF catches a fly ball i'm guessing for first out... Fires it to 1B for the tag up for 2nd out... fires it to Home which catches the guy in a run down.. so he fires to short? back to the catcher only to end up back to 3rd for the tag? I mean if that's the case, why fire it to 6? if the guy's in a run down.. i dunno now i need to google this play lol
damn i actually guessed it pretty good.. just googled it.. SS ran towards 3rd to freeze the runner before throwing it back to home.. that makes sense now
6:09 NYY @ TB I am new to the game but I was wondering if the runner at the 3th base *made a run* for NYY despite the triple play made by TB or not. Is the top inning over with the score 4 - 2 for the Yakees or the score remains 3 - 2 ? Thank you.
In some of these, the announcer talked about an unassisted triple play at 2nd base. It seems clear that the catch is the first out, then the runner heading towards second runs right into the tag. Would I be correct in thinking that the runner who has already left second cannot return once the base has been tagged? Please excuse my incomplete knowledge of the rules.
As a non-baseballfan, how does this work? Sometimes someone just catches the ball and touches a player and it's still a triple play? Would someone care to explain how it works? :)
Well when the baserunners are at 1st and 2nd base if they leave the base and the ball is caughy they have to return to the base before the fielder touches the bag. So say runners are at 1st and 2nd base and they pull a hit and run (the runners take off before the ball reaches the plate and the batter is supposed to hit the ball) and its a line drive to 2nd. If the 2nd baseman catches the ball thats one out. Then he steps on 2nd base before the runner on 2nd gets back for 2 outs and tags the 1st base runner as he heads to 2nd base on the hit and run for the third out.
Blorbie, the object of the game is to score "runs". To do that, you hit the ball, then touch each of the bases, then get back around to home plate, without getting called out along the way. Most runs wins. When the defense gets three outs, the team's switch sides. The time it takes the defense to get its three outs is called half of an inning, both teams getting a turn make one inning, and nine innings make a game. There are several ways the defense can get a runner out. This is not a complete list: 1) tag the runner with the ball, if the runner is not also touching one of the bases. 2) tagging a base that a runner is "forced" to go to. Whenever the ball is hit, the batter must either get to first base or get put out trying. So a very common play is when the ball is hit, the runner tries to run to first base, and somebody catches the ball and throws it to first base. If the runner is not fast enough to get there before the throw does, he's out. 2b) And since you can't have two runners on the same base, those runners are also forced to advance to the next base. 3) if the ball is hit and then caught "on the fly" (the ball never hit the ground or the wall), then the guy who hit it is out. 4) runners cannot advance while a fly ball is in the air and then caught. Runners who leave their base early are forced to return. This can lead to the "unassisted triple play" where a defensive player catches a fly ball (out #1), then steps on second base to get another runner (out #2), and tags the other runner who left first base early and showed up in the camera shot, knowing he can't outrun a throw back to first, and stands there while getting tagged out (#3). Despite what the video may lead you to believe, it is very rare to turn a triple play (three outs on one swing of the bat). A typical major league team gets one or two a year, over a 162 game season.
what gets me though when there's runners on base no matter how many outs the other team has it's a force out another words it has to be a tag out and not a step on the bag out so how can it be an out if it's not a force out instead of a tag out?
What about in 2014 with the indians at dodgers when Puig flew out to CF, then he try the man out at the plate and threw it to second but puig was called safe. After that, don mattingly (LA manager at that time) challenged the call at the plate but it stood. Then Terry Francona challenged the safe call at 2nd and it was reversed and he was called out
I was at the game for the unassisted triple play against the Mets. It's should've been a game tying single for Francoeur. But Collins called a double steal and ruined it for everybody.
Can someone explain to me the one at 7:04 ? Why did they run after the second guy if they already threw the ball on the 3rd and 2nd base ? I don't understand
Nicolas Gleason-Boure hit and run?????? These plays are incredibly rare. And the 5-4-3 triple plays would have been prevented if the runners were indeed running.
