Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihu1m!gadfly From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Unassisted triple play WITHOUT TOUCHING THE BALL Message-ID: <473@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Jun-85 18:47:32 EDT Article-I.D.: ihu1m.473 Posted: Sun Jun 23 18:47:32 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 02:55:10 EDT References: <177@mb2c.UUCP> <256@mhuxl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 29 -- > > >............. How can a fielder be credited with an > > >unassisted triple play WITHOUT TOUCHING THE BALL? Try this scenario on for size: Runners on 1st and 2nd, none out (obviously). Both runners break on the pitch, and the batter hits a towering pop fly to the left side of the infield. The ump calls the infield fly rule, but as we all know, runners may advance at their peril, and so they do. The runner from first, however, passes the runner from second (who got his signals crossed and held up just a few feet off the bag), and as he (the guy who had been on 1st) gets half-way between 2nd and 3rd, the ball on its way down hits him! The shortstop, who never got a chance to catch the thing, is thence credited with all 3 outs--the infield fly, the passed runner, and the bonked runner. Now, somebody *PLEASE* tell me (this machine's netnews has been badly hosed up recently) how a batter can get 5 RBI's on 1 swing (or was it 1 up?). I missed that entire discussion, but am available for enlightenment at the address below. Thanks. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 23 Jun 85 [5 Messidor An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***