Originally Posted by
TechDAG
I once had a triple play unassisted while playing center field. Someone told me they can't score it that way and I never understood his logic. This was 12 -year old league. Our second baseman wasn't very mobile (read wide and slow). Bases loaded, no outs. Someone hit a pop up to very short center field behind the second baseman. I thought the second baseman had it but trotted in a little. The wind blew it over toward straight away center and I realized the 2B had lost it. It looked like it was going to drop and the runners took off. I ran in as hard as I could and gloved it right off the ground. I was off balance and stumbling forward, my next step was on the bag (just happened to hit it, not on purpose) and and I collided with the runner from first and tagged him out of self defense. Since I held onto the ball, the batter flied out, the runner on second was doubled off and the runner from first was tagged out. When later I said I made a triple play, I was told that can't be scored that way from the outfield.