Re: Stats Gone Wild! Plus Triple-Play Bonus

Mark Brader wrote:

>>>>> Could you please explain to the uninitiated exactly how one makes
>>>>> an unassisted triple play?
>>>> 
>>>> Typically, one catches a line drive near second base; steps on the
bag to
>>>> double off the runner that had left the bag; and ...
>>> 
>>> When exactly is a runner liable to be tagged from behind like that?
>> 
>> I don't see any runner being tagged from behind in what you've quoted.
> 
> I thought stepping on the bag counted as tagging the runner.  Okay, make
> it "put out from behind".

Or you make it "doubled off", since that *is* the no-confusion, specific
name for that kind of put out.  Hey, come to think of it, that's why I
used it in the first place.  ;)

That said, your answer is "whenever the runner has left the base on a hit
ball that is caught on the fly for an out and a defensive player with the
ball gets to the bag the runner left before the runner can return to it,
which return the runner must attempt."

Well, the runner doesn't *have* to attempt to get back to the bag he left;
he can just stand there on the baseline like a spectator and be doubled
off by the above process.


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