{"id":1539601,"date":"2022-07-05T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539601"},"modified":"2022-07-05T11:04:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T15:04:35","slug":"youll-never-see-this-again-bizarre-spectacular-play-makes-baseball-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youll-never-see-this-again-bizarre-spectacular-play-makes-baseball-history\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ll Never See This Again: Bizarre, Spectacular Play Makes Baseball History"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoull-never-see-this-again-bizarre-spectacular-play-makes-baseball-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539601&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Something happened in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/baseball\">Major League Baseball<\/a> game Monday night that had never occurred in the history of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>It was a triple play, which is rare enough, but it was an \u201c8-5\u201d triple play and came in a 10-inning 6-3 Minnesota Twins win over the home team Chicago White Sox. The numerical designation means it was started by the centerfielder, the Twins\u2019 Byron Buxton, and finished by third baseman Gio Urshela.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re going to spend the rest of your life watching games and you can watch five a day and you\u2019re not going to see an 8-5 triple play,\u201d White Sox play-by-play man Jason Benetti said. \u201cBut that\u2018s exactly what you saw here because nobody tagged up and then, the tag on Moncada and the step on second base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The White Sox said decided that tagging up is for chumps and ran themselves into a triple play <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q7P6u6o2AA\">pic.twitter.com\/q7P6u6o2AA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JomboyMedia\/status\/1544142614097793031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There have been just over 700 triple plays turned in Major League Baseball history, including 15 unassisted triple plays. But until Monday night, there had never been an 8-5 version.<\/p>\n<p>Buxton, the graceful all-star outfielder started the play in the bottomof the seventh inning with a spectacular catch of a deep fly ball off the bat of A.J. Pollock. Chicago had Yoan Moncada on first base and Adam Engel on second, and both started running and failed to tag up, likely thinking Buxton would not make the catch.<\/p>\n<p>Buxton, crashed into the wall, ball in his glove, then fired it in to Urshela. By then, Engel was past third with Moncada bearing down on him. Neither had a chance to get back to their bases. Urshela tagged Moncada as he was trying to run back to first, then stepped on second to force Engel out.<\/p>\n<p>As impressive as Buxton\u2019s catch and throw was, the play was made possible by the terrible baserunning of the White Sox players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just made a bad read on it,\u201d Engel said later. \u201cObviously was watching [Buxton]. He took his head off the ball to find the wall and when he looked toward the wall, I thought he was looking for the ball to get down and [I] made a bad play, made a mistake on it. And unfortunately cost us some runs right there most likely and probably would\u2019ve gone on to win the game. It was tough. My mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White Sox Manager Tony La Russa, the second-winningest manager in MLB history and who has managed in more than 5,000 games, sat at the dugout railing with jaw dropped in disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever seen one like it,\u201d LaRussa said after the game. \u201cPotential difference maker at that point. Yo\u00e1n was really aggressive, which is not the worst thing you can do when you play this game. Judgment was wrong and costly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaRussa was ejected later in the game for arguing over balls and strikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something happened in a Major League Baseball game Monday night that had never occurred in the history of the sport. It was a triple play, which is rare enough, but it was an \u201c8-5\u201d triple play and came in a 10-inning 6-3 Minnesota Twins win over the home team Chicago White Sox. 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