Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!hou2b!halle From: halle@hou2b.UUCP (J.HALLE) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Unassisted triple play WITHOUT TOUCHING THE BALL Message-ID: <563@hou2b.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 10:38:32 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2b.563 Posted: Mon Jun 24 10:38:32 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 07:54:02 EDT References: <1098@peora.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 9 How about this? Bases loaded, everyone running. The runner on third falls just off the bag. The runner on second, a real speedster, passes the fallen runner before he can get up, a putout for the third baseman. Meanwhile, even though the bouncer to third is slow, the runner on first and the batter are slower. The runner on third realizes that if he doesn't do something, a double play is certain, so he gets up un such a manner as to be deliberately hit with the ball. The second putout for the third baseman. But the ump rules that the runner deliberately interfered to break up the double play, and so rules the batter out. The third putout.