Triple plays are a very rare thing, and it’s especially rare to see them turned in the fashion the Chicago White Sox did on Friday night against the Texas Rangers.
This is about the wackiest triple play you will ever see:
We’re gonna need a bigger scorecard …
@WhiteSox pull off insane 9-3-2-6-2-5 TRIPLE PLAY.https://t.co/hiSCSzXy9k— MLB (@MLB) April 23, 2016
Score that a 9-3-2-6-2-5 triple play. That is the first such triple play in MLB history:
According to SABR’s triple play data base, the White Sox have turned the first 932625 triple play in MLB history. https://t.co/nvqrZH4HRU — Christina Kahrl (@ChristinaKahrl) April 23, 2016
Credit the Rangers’ awful baserunning for helping make history possible. It’s been a crazy night in baseball, as we also had the New York Yankees and Florida Gators have straight steals of home within minutes of each other, and we had a 36-year-old Jayson Werth rob a home run.