Plays You've Never Seen Before

Watching a local college game. Home team clinging to a 3-2 lead in the 6th with runners on 1st and 2nd no outs. Batter bunts the ball on a pitch that almost hit him, pitcher goes to third for the out (barely)3b throws to first for the second out and then the first baseman goes to third and gets the runner from first trying to go to third. 1-5-3-5 triple play.

This may not completely qualify as its been done before but its the participants that got me. I never thought I'd see Humberto Quintero (Astros Catcher) score from 2b on a bunt with out any errors. Straight out of Major League and Willie Mays Hayes.

I saw the Orioles win on TV last night. That hasn't been seen too often...unfortunately....

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Originally posted by hokieone:
I saw the Orioles win on TV last night. That hasn't been seen too often...unfortunately....

Hey......only 1 game behind the Sox!

This happened a month ago. Bear with me here because its as hard to explain as it was to beleive at the time.

Son, a 2012, pitching an important early season league road game against a good team. Works into the bottom of the 6th with a 4-1 lead. A K w/pb, BB, and an E proceed to load the bases. He gets a popup out to the 2B-RF-1B triangle. The runner at 3b is tagging, runners at 1b and 2b drift off the bag and watch the play. Meanwhile 2B is running with back to ball and tries to make over the shoulder catch, hits his glove and goes right into the RF's glove as they come together in an awkward manner for one out. All runners think ball dropped. Runner at 3b, who had tagged, goes home. Runners at 1b and 2b hustle to 2b and 3b respectively. RF throws ball to SS who steps on 2B for the second out, then tags the runner from 1b that is now standing on 2B for the third out.

A 4-9-6 triple play WITH a run scoring!

And despite the explosion (literally) from the home team, the field umpire got the whole play 100% correct, including the run scoring.

This week alone:

R3 tags up and scores on a foul fly to F1.
A 3-RBI single.
R2 gets doubled off on a short fly ball to center.
One half-inning: 5 batters, 4 hits, 1 run, with outs made at 3rd, 2nd, and 1st (I was tempted to let them have one more batter to see if they could run for the cycle.)

runners are on 1st and third corners are in for the bunt,the runner on 1st is taking a very big lead, the pitch is way outside and the 2nd basemen slides behind the runner at 1st for the pickoff at 1st base by the catcher.

This past week:
Routine ground ball to shortstop, shortstop over throws first base, runner goes to second, catcher, backing up fist base slides into fence and throws to ss covering second, runner breaks back to first, RF now covering first starts rundown. Throw back to 2b covering second. Long rundown continues until finally CF covering second throws back to C covering first who tags runner. During the run down, 7 different players touched the ball. Only LF and P did not get in play.