Seriously, how does a team think that the first out is actually the third? I can see getting confused and being off by one, but by TWO? Note to all MLB GMs....don't draft any of the kids from this team.
"``We were all laughing in the dugout,'' Leigh Coach Noe Ochoa said. ``I said to the catcher, `You really thought there was one out?' But somehow, instead of one out, we got three. We got lucky.''"
The quote from the manager doesn't make sense. The catcher obviously thought there were two outs before the K.
If the scorer were mean, he could have given the catcher and third basemen errors and then it wouldn't have been a triple play.
But since it seems that no runner advanced a base just because of the ball being rolled back to the mound, then it has to go in the books as a strike 'em out, roll it back, throw it over, roll it back, throw it over triple play.
4 From what I understand from reading the story, it would be a strike 'em out-roll it back-throw it over-roll it back-run 'em down triple play, as the pitcher made the final out himself.
The lame part is that the catcher still gets a putout, as does the third baseman. The cool part is that the pitcher gets one assist, one putout and a K - in the same play!
The pitcher deserves all the credit, though. How could he have been the only one paying attention? GMs should draft him, but not the catcher or third baseman.
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The quote from the manager doesn't make sense. The catcher obviously thought there were two outs before the K.
If the scorer were mean, he could have given the catcher and third basemen errors and then it wouldn't have been a triple play.
But since it seems that no runner advanced a base just because of the ball being rolled back to the mound, then it has to go in the books as a strike 'em out, roll it back, throw it over, roll it back, throw it over triple play.
The coach was likely as confused as everybody else.
The pitcher deserves all the credit, though. How could he have been the only one paying attention? GMs should draft him, but not the catcher or third baseman.
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