BRITS React to MLB - Triple Plays!

#mlb #tripleplay
OB Daz and OB Aidan react to the best triple plays in MLB.
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[@TreyM1609]

It’s still one of the rarest plays in the game. It happens a few times a year but most of the time it’s the fielders knowing and reacting quicker that the offense

[@andrewverburg1805]

An unassisted triple play is The rarest type of triple play, and one of the rarest events of any kind in baseball, is for a single fielder to complete all three outs in one play. There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.

[@a-train69420]

I have a fond memory of that Eric Bruntlett Unassisted TP at 10:40. I don't remember the exact year, but it was somewhere around 2009-2010. My dad is from Philly, but we didn't live there at the time, so we didn't get Phillies games on TV. We'd just resort to watching the "Gameday" feature on ESPN, which gives a pitch-by-pitch and play-by-play updates on the game. We were getting nervous starting off the 9th by giving up 2 baserunners, with the tying run on first and no outs. All of a sudden, the game just said "Final," so for a split second we assumed it must've been a walk-off 3-run homer, because, of course, what else could it have been? We thought the score just hadn't updated yet, and then we read what happened, and later saw the play, and we all lived happily ever after the end.

[@billbrasky1288]

Catchers are usually really slow runners. Years of crouching behind home plate ruins their knees. Also slower players might be steered towards catching at a young age. They hit into double plays a lot.

[@sandar128]

Except for J.T. Realmuto who can run for days. With his inside-the-park home run against the Braves for the Phillies.

[@TreyM1609]

You also gotta remember a lot of these triple plays, the guys on base are running as soon as the pitch is thrown. They’re trying a hit and run which is when the runners just take off and the batters job is to just put the ball in play. 95% of the time if you do that and the ball is put in play the runners advance but the batter will be thrown out at first. But when it goes badly it’s guys running full speed toward the next base then someone catches a line drive and it’s just tripling up the outs.

[@ryanc9888]

Aidan is correct a lot of triple plays are just luck where a ball is hit sharply directly at an infielder with runners on base so the infielder simply has to step on the bag and throw to another bag.

[@geoffrobinson]

I watched that last one, the Phillies unassisted triple play, live when I was watching my infant twins by myself. Ended the game in the 9th inning. Like watching a leprechaun run by.

[@waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaluigi]

Aidan needed to put his contacts in for that first one lol

[@hifijohn]

The ball wouldn't go straight down like that if it hit him in the chest.

[@michaelb.3982]

It hit the skinny part of the bat..for sure.

[@lisahumphries3898]

When the field team catches a ball without it touching the ground, the runners must stay on base until the ball is caught. If the runner proceeded to the next base before a fly ball is caught, that’s when you’ll see the field team throw it to the base BEHIND the runner to get him out. Sometimes runners assume the fly ball won’t be caught and get too far ahead to turn back to their base.

[@JPMadden]

WAY back on July 17, 1990, I watched the Boston Red Sox hit into 2 triple plays in one game against the Minnesota Twins. It's the only time this has happened in more than 200,000 MLB games played. Even more remarkable, they were identical 5-4-3 plays (runners on 1st and 2nd, ground ball to third baseman who steps on 3rd, throws to 2nd and then to 1st).

[@coophitsdingers]

On the one where the announcer was like “there was a miss at home” it is because the runner went home and Votto threw it to third and got the force out because he caught it in the air

[@moe92870]

0:54 R.I.P. Vin Scully, background voice of my childhood. It's like a warm hug. 😥

[@londonsarsenal]

Vin is the greatest to ever do it.

[@BeefPapa]

The mythical unassisted triple play

[@miamidolphinsfan]

One of the most exciting plays in all of sports

[@sabbyvk424]

As a Braves fan, 2023 season against Boston 8+3+5=3 was an amazing play

[@andrew19k]

To clear up the White Sox play you were confused about midway through. Since there was man on first, and the shortstop didn't catch it, the 2nd base runner by rule has to try to advance to third, he can't run back. If that same play happened but first was empty, the second base runner could have stayed. 2nd base runner was confused because he thought the shortstop caught it, which he needed to go back to 2nd since he didn't tag up. Bang bang play, mistakes happen.

[@dugferd2266]

Yes, when a runner is forced to the next base, the base he must leave no longer offers him protection from a tag out. That is of course unless the forcing of the runners behind him is removed by their being put out before him. That is why it was important that the fielder applied the tag to the runner first, then stepped on the base to achieve the force out on the runner coming to second base. If he had stepped on the bag before tagging that lead runner, then that lead runner is no longer forced to move to the next base, and because he was standing on the base, he would have been safe from being put out by a tag. But, the tag came first while all of the runners' forces were still in effect, then came the step on the second base bag for the second out (by force), and the throw and base touch at first base to beat the runner was out number three.

[@ericwilliams8420]

You can't advance to the next base if the ball is caught on the fly without tagging up first (Waiting till the ball is first caught, and only then running to the next base). If you advance without tagging up that's an out, and two people can't be on the same base at once so that's also an out.

[@guyfaux3978]

Often enough, the batter "reaches on a fielder's choice," the result being two out, man on first.

[@lovesgucci1]

Did you guys hear about the Ohtani situation?? Also, 2009 Phillies @ Mets, the last clip, was the last time for an unassisted triple play (14 years) That was also the 2nd time there was an unassisted triple play to end the game (1923 & 2009.) Unassisted Triple plays are more rare than Perfect Games.

[@Darth_Lunas]

As a former SS/3RD basemen, I love watching these. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

[@larryfisher2633]

Baseball is one incredible, fun game!

[@gracielynn9623]

I’ve always liked triple plays. They are weird rare and wacky. Only get like 2-4 per year at most.

[@RomesThe59]

When you hear 5-4-3 triple play or other variations they are calling it by position. 5-4-3 would be 3rd baseman to 2nd baseman to 1st baseman. The field position numbers are… 1. Pitcher 2. Catcher 3. First base 4. Second base 5. Third base 6. Short stop 7. Left field 8. Center field 9. Right field

[@michaelb.3982]

It only takes a second for the ball to get to the third baseman..So the batter is still leaving the batters box when he fields the ball..

[@nicholasregan6526]

I've learned that the first base ump uses sight and sound, he not only sees but a ball hitting the glove sounds different than foot hitting the base, especially when sight is iffy. Good reaction

[@ryanwilson9709]

When the ball is hit the runners cannot start running until its caught. Risky but getting a head start is a better risk

[@user-es4bd6xp1w]

Baseball is A thinking game.

[@huntersanschargrin3983]

In the first clip he's bunting. If a player is hit by pitch but still swings it's considered a strike.

[@johncanby8109]

Triple plays are hard to do because they require two conditions. That there are no outs, and that there are at least two runners on base. If that’s not the case, it can’t happen. I would say the situation is harder than the actual play.

[@mjdunlay]

If there is already one out you cannot have a triple play.

[@ajrocks44]

Sometimes when a line drive is hit thebrunners are going because it's what we call a hit and run, where you start the runners early to give them a head start and the batter is to swing at any pitch and try and get a hit. So bc its hit hard they are about 40 ft away from the base they were on when the ball ia caught and have no hope getting back to the base they need to be on.

[@user-kq5ke5yb6k]

Fun video.

[@brianstacey2679]

A lot of these look confusing because you're used to seeing good baserunning. The ones that are a result of hit-and-run plays or just bad baserunning look weird.

[@TB-tr3cm]

First clip. Daz is right.The ball hit the bat.

[@user-es4bd6xp1w]

Playing baseball is instinct. If you thank too hard about throwing the ball. You will fail.

[@GeeButtersnaps]

In baseball, there's an offensive strategy called the hit n run where the base runners take off as soon as the ball is hit. This looks to be used in a few of the clips which is why there's a runner on second for example and the fielder tags him out. The runner was on 1st and ran on contact and a fielder catches the ball. Ez out

[@meanyvizzini8347]

It’s normal to run as soon as the ball is hit; in the hit & run, the base runners start running before the ball is hit, counting on the batter to hit the ball. It’s a high risk, high reward strategy that has been going out of fashion the past several years.

[@rollomaughfling380]

​@@meanyvizzini8347 "Going out of fashion"? Stolen bases are back, baby! Major upswing since the bigger bags.

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[@zappa1952]

The inning is over when 3 outs are recorded. There is no 4th out. I think you misheard the announcer.

[@TeamEvil84]

Boy need glasses. It hit the bat.

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[@luk35kywalk3r8]

Aiden’s blind

[@johanna0131]

Great reaction! This channel has a fun video on baseball jump throws. You should check it out too.

[@cashby5187]

I love this channel but his son has no sense when it comes to the jobs of umpires and referees. He’s always complaining about them and “how can you not see that”. “Refs should be banned” and then he watches a slomo replay of somethign and still can’t see it(which is completely fine) but then gets on umps for not making “easy calls”