Baseball’s New Review Rules Help Cleveland Indians Get Triple Play
Major League Baseball’s use of instant replay to get calls right helped the Cleveland Indians twice on one play in their game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 1st. There were a couple of very close plays on tags at the plate and second base, with one call being overturned and one confirmed, with the end result being a triple play, Cleveland’s first since April 3, 2011.
It was that kind of night for the Indians, who broke out of a dry spell of 21 straight scoreless innings to easily win 10-3.
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Crazy great play, but no where close to the greatest triple play in Indian’s history. In the 1920 World Series an Indian second baseman, Bill Wanbsganss, pulled off an unassisted triple play.
Click on this link for a list of all unassisted triple plays in Major League history.
Nice. Two things come to mind: first, Cleveland infielders are prolific at the uTp and second, two times a first baseman did it? How? A really shallow pop-up, tags the runner coming home and beats the runner back to first? That was before the infield fly rule. So, an anti-Williams shift, intentionally dropped fly ball, tag one runner coming off and one coming into second then race to touch first (to beat the surprised batter)?
Resolved!!: both were line drives caught, tagged runner, and beat runner back to second.
From nationalpastime.com to give proper credit.
Wow! I’m surprised that they overturned that call at second: looked to go either way.