Triple Plays

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Discussion in tonight's game thread reminded me of why I am always watching for triple plays. I found the game I was looking for, and turned out it wasn't the game in Philly that Ordonez hit a home run -- that was 2001.

The Game I was thinking of was May of 1999, and it wasn't around the horn from 3rd base, but a liner to SS. Alfonzo and Olerud were in motion and that was that.

The other triple play I think of in Mets history was the Francouer game-ending unassisted triple play of 2009, also against the Phillies.

What do you think of when you think of Mets and triple plays?

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I was at the Rey-O homer game and remembered a distinctly TP-less night.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The 23-inning game vs. the Giants in 1964 featured a 14th-inning triple play on a Orlando Cepeda liner to McMillan catching Alou and Willie Mays running.

April of 1965: Johnny Lewis to Cannizaro to Roy McMillan: the rare 9-2-6 TP catches Bob Aspromonte trying to advance on a sac fly.

Both these plays have highlight calls (Nelson and Kiner, respectively) preserved on the incomparable "Miracle Mets" LP

Edited August 5, 2014 by Guest

[Gwreck]

The most recent TP turned against the Mets was in 2010, a Tejada grounder to third with runners on first and second.

That game is more memorable for Jon Niese's finest ever pitching performance, a one hit shutout against the Padres. If memory serves, a first inning hit was the only Padre baserunner.

I believe the most recent Mets triple play was started by Angel Pagan at Nationals Park, with the Mets benefiting from a delayed out call on a potentially trapped ball.

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[Guest d'Kong76]

The Odd Couple movie will always be what I think of.