Welcome to FanIQ!
FanIQ is the ultimate free community for sports fans.
Talk sports with fans from all over - 1,256,833+ Comments
Track your game picks - 14,860,103+ Sports Predictions
Prove you know sports - 67,756+ Trivia Questions
Find fans of your teams - 1,906,219+ New Friends
About the Author - CriticalFanatic
"Hell."

Jason
Chicago, IL
Male 28 years old

About Me:
Somehow remain a passionate sports fan despite living and dying with the Chicago Cubs and Michigan State athletics. Born in California, grew up in Michigan and went to college at Miami U (Ohio). All of which have shaped my sports fandom. Also a featured blogger and editor of this fine website you might have heard about called FanIQ.
Unassisted Triple Play Turned by Cleveland Indians' Asdrubal Cabrera
4
comments
Asdrubal Joins The Best Names AND Solo Triple Play Club With Bill Wambsganss
by CriticalFanatic
>7 days ago



Before tonight only 13 unassisted triple plays had ever been recorded. The Indians' Asdrubal Cabrera turned in the 14th tonight during Game 2 of the Cleveland-Toronto day-night doubleheader.

Like most unassisted triple plays, they lack the dramatic effect - usually a diving catch near a base and a sequence of very quick tags and it's over. That said, it's only happened 14 times in the history of baseball. It's exciting enough.

Lyle Overbay hit a line drive just to the right of second base where Cabrera made the diving grab. He quickly stepped on second base and then tagged out another Blue Jays base runner to complete the feat.

Overbay was good-humored after the game:

"I was trying to speed up the game. I get to go down in history. They can't take that away from me. It's not smart to hit a line drive on a hit-and-run. Only bad things can happen."

Unfortunately, Cabrera's brilliant fielding ended when he crossed over the third-base line and threw the ball into the stands. Dude, you just pulled an unassisted triple play. You might want to keep the thing.

Here's a list of the 14 unassisted triple plays in history:

1. Neal Ball SS - July 19, 1909
2. Bill Wabmsganss, 2B Indians  - October 10, 1920 (during World Series)
3. George Burns, 1B Red Sox - September 14, 1923
4. Ernie Padgett, SS Boston Braves - October 6, 1923
5. Glenn Wright, SS Pirates - May 7, 1925
6. Jimmy Cooney, SS - May 30, 1927
7. Johnny Neun, 1B Tigers -  May 31, 1927 (back-to-back days ...  impressive)
8. Ron Hansen, Senators SS - July 30, 1968
9. Mickey Morandini, 2B Phillies - September 20, 1992
10. John Valentin, SS Red Sox - July 8, 1994
11. Randy Velarde, 2B Yankees - May 29, 2000
12. Rafael Furcal, SS Braves - August 10, 2003
13. Troy Tulowitzki, SS Rockies - April 29, 2007
14. Asdrubal Cabrera, 2B Indiana - May 12, 2008
 
4
Comment!
Share it

Read More: MLB, Cleveland Indians, Asdrubal Cabrera
« Matt Leinart On Jeopardy For His Hot Tub Photos, Sort Of | NBA Playoff Triple Threat: C's Don't Like the Road, No Sir »

TODAY'S TOP PICKS ON FANIQ
  1. Harrington Does It Again
  2. It's Just as Awesome as We Thought 10
  3. A Fedor Vs Couture Fight Looks Like It May Finally Happen Thanks To Affliction
  4. Topic: Having a great tournament, Michelle Wie fails to sign scorecard and gets disqualified. Blames it on... well, she's not sure yet. 8
  5. Well There Goes The Gold Glove 3
Who Am I?
Who Am I?
Take the Trivia Challenge

George Foreman
Muhammad Ali
Joe Louis
Mike Tyson

Created by: Jon
More Sports Trivia
4 comments
Vote!
Comment!
Your votes determine top comment
Top comment earns 300 Points!
68 days ago
1
VOTE:
 
+1
 
+0
 
+0
 
-0
Those gaps are incredible.  1927-68-92
 
68 days ago
0
VOTE:
 
+0
 
+0
 
+0
 
-0
Showoff.
 
67 days ago
1
VOTE:
 
+0
 
+1
 
+0
 
-0
And MLB catches it and pulls it from Youtube - Love thy fan - MLB!!
 
67 days ago
1
VOTE:
 
+0
 
+1
 
+0
 
-0
Ripx7 wrote:
And MLB catches it and pulls it from Youtube - Love thy fan - MLB!!
That's google cracking down.  YouTube will have nothing but diet coke and mentos in a couple weeks.
 
 
Preview