Triple plays are rare.
But this goes beyond rare. It’s a triple play … off a catch made by the Minnesota Twins’ Byron Buxton in deep center field.
Here’s the situation that came during the Twins beating the Chicago White Sox on Monday: With men on first and second in the seventh, A.J. Pollock hit a deep fly ball to center that Buxton grabbed on the warning track.
But the runners might have thought Buxton wasn’t going to get to it, so instead of tagging up, they were headed around the bases. Adam Engel got tagged out as he tried to run back to second, and a throw to first completed an 8-5 triple play, which made history: