Cabrera turns unassisted triple play
In case you missed it last night Cleveland Indians second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera turned the 14th unassisted triple play in Major League Baseball history in the second game of a double header against the Toronto Blue Jays. With two guys on in the top of the 5th Lyle Overbay hit a line drive to Cabrera’s right and Asdrubal did the rest.
Cabrera made a diving catch on a line drive by Lyle Overbay, touched second base and then tagged out Marco Scutaro to quickly end the fifth inning of Cleveland’s 3-0 loss in 10 innings.
“I was trying to speed up the game,” Overbay joked. “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.”
The only miscue by the 22-year-old Cabrera was that he didn’t keep the ball.
“He flipped it into the stands and right as he did cried out, ‘Oh, no!’” first-base coach Luis Rivera said, serving as the Venezuelan’s interpreter.
“I knew it was pretty special,” Cabrera said.
It’s unfortunate that he didn’t get to keep the ball, maybe the fan who caught it will trade it back to him for some free gear. Also lost in the excitement may be the fact that the Indians went on to lose the game 3-0 in 10 innings.
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