1-3-5: Phillies complete ultra rare triple play in win over Tigers
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It is a feat so rare that very few people alive could have even witnessed it the last time it occurred.
The Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night turned a 1-3-5 triple play in the third inning en route to an 8-1 win over the Detroit Tigers.
It was the first time in 95 years that a Major League team completed a 1-3-5 triple play.
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Singles by Zach McKinstry and Carson Kelly put Detroit runners on the corners with no one out. Then, Matt Vierling hit a broken-bat liner back to Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola, who tossed to Bryce Harper at first for a double play.
Catcher Garrett Stubbs, noticing McKinstry had never stopped running from third, signaled to Harper to throw to third, where Alec Bohm stepped on the bag to finish the 1-3-5 triple play.
“I don’t know if it was the bat breaking, but (McKinstry) definitely thought the ball hit the ground,” Tigers manager AJ Hinch told reporters after the game. “He held up until Nola threw to first, and then he was sprinting home. He just misread the play.”
It was the first 1-3-5 triple play in the majors since the Tigers turned one against the Red Sox on July 11, 1929, Major League Baseball said, citing the Society for American Baseball Research.
“That was a pretty cool moment for all of us,” Harper said after the game. “It was like going back to Little League, we were so excited.”
Harper homered, doubled twice and drove in five runs in the victory, helping the Phillies improve to a league-leading 52-26.
Associated Press contributed to this report.