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The unassisted triple play, the perfect game, hitting four home runs in one game and five extra-base hits in a game are thus comparable in terms of rarity, but the perfect game and the home run and extra-base hit records require an extraordinary effort along with a fair amount of luck. By contrast, the unassisted triple play is essentially ...
December 10, 1991: Mariano Duncan was signed as a free agent by the Phillies. [3] December 11, 1991: Bruce Ruffin was traded by the Phillies to the Milwaukee Brewers for Dale Sveum. [4] January 8, 1992: The Phillies traded a player to be named later to the New York Yankees for Darrin Chapin.
It was the first unassisted triple play since 1968, and the first in the National League since 1927. [8] [9] [12] Morandini was also the first second baseman in National League history, and the first in the regular season, to turn an unassisted triple play; [10] [12] all previous occurrences were made by first basemen or shortstops. [9]
That triple play in 1929 was also turned in Detroit, according to the SABR database. The Tigers did it against the Boston Red Sox when batter Russ Scarritt lined back to pitcher Josh Billings.
Eric Kevin Bruntlett was born March 29, 1978, in Lafayette, Indiana, [1] to Craig and Angela Bruntlett. [2] He was a two-sport athlete at William Henry Harrison High School in Tippecanoe County: in addition to playing second base and shortstop for the Harrison Raiders baseball team, [3] [4] he was a cornerback for the American football team. [5]
Replacing Jamie Moyer as a starter in the Phillies rotation on August 12, Martínez won his 2009 debut. In his return to New York on August 23, Martínez's win against the Mets was preserved by a rare unassisted triple play by second baseman Eric Bruntlett in the bottom of the ninth inning. With his win on September 3—his third as a ...
It was also the first triple play the Phillies had turned since 2017 and the first 1-3-5 triple play in Major League Baseball since 1929, according to The Athletic's Jayson Stark. Remarkably, that ...
On August 23, 2009, Francoeur became the second player in major league history (after Homer Summa in 1927) to hit into a game-ending unassisted triple play. He hit a line drive directly to Eric Bruntlett, second baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies. [10] Francoeur re-signed with the Mets for 2010.