Do the hustle!

That was amazing!!!

Two rundowns, no less. I figured it would be a caught ball near 1st or 2nd, step on the base and then throw to the other for 3.

that was a base running error.

I'm a luddite, not from the US, so don't have a good understanding of baseball. Can someone explain what happened?

I'm trying to think of an analogy for this in another sport like football. Basically, the likelihood of this happening would look like this.

Messi blocks a goal in his own penalty box. He takes the ball and dribbles the entire length of the dodging all the defenders until he gets to the last defender. The defender slides, hits the ball and knocks it up in the air. Messi then heads the ball past the goalkeeper and the ball then ricochets off all 3 posts on the goal and goes in.

There was two runners on base, one on 1st base (The right corner) and one on 2nd (the top corner). When the ball is hit, they BOTH have to run to the next base, so the 2nd base goes to 3rd, first goes to second, and the runner goes to first.

If the ball is thrown to someone on the defensive side for the inning, and they touch the base before the runner does, they're out.

Basically, what happened was the ball was hit to the second basemen, he threw it backhanded to the shortstop who tagged second base and got the out for the runner coming from first.

The Shortstop then threw the ball to the third basemen who attempted to tag the runner (that also counts as an out) and the runner was caught in a rundown between the shortstop and third baseman.

The person on first base, then in what appears to be the biggest bonehead move of the season so far, decided to run anyway, even though the other runner was tagged out, and got himself tagged out in the process.

Are triple plays really that rare? This particular type of triple play must be rare, but I figure the "caught line drive, step on second, throw to first" or simply a force out on all 3 bases must happen occasionally.

Thanks for the explanation Sheppard, much appreciated. Done a bit of googling on Baseball, definitely sounds like an interesting play!

Well, it was officially scored as the first 4-6-5-6-5-3-4 triple play in Major League history, and the first triple play of any kind for the Yankees in 45 years, but it would have never happened without two awful base running decisions.

I can't recall ever seeing a grounder triple play with only one force out. Impressive stuff, especially the last throw (as the slo-mo shows). Why did the batter try for 2nd??? That was stupid stupid stupid.

Total bonehead move--but if he had been successful, we'd all be going on about how smart he was to go for it when 2nd baseman was distracted.

The analogy I would make with this is, a corner kick that gets bicycle kicked into a post which bounces off the back of the goal tenders head and is nudged/headed in by the offense.

One part good fortune, one part mistake, and one part heads up playing.

I need a bowling analogy to understand

..But Who's on first?

Why is Forest Whitaker pitching a baseball game for the Yankees?