Running 2017 MLB regular season thread

It only takes one thing to fuck up a perfect picture. I'd photoshop him and flip him right-left 180 so he's looking to his right. Fake news, but a better result. But, then again, his damn glove isn't open.

 

That's what I was coming here to post. Had the ball bounced by this point? How is the dude in the hat, with the glove on, so twisted around?

 

My guess is that he jumped, landed awkwardly or lost his balance and kind of twisted off to that side. Great photo.

 

I actually think the guy twisted the wrong way makes the picture all the more extraordinary.

 

Orioles turned their second triple play of the season last night. The event drove me into a search that immediately found this magnificent resource:
SABR Triple Plays Database | Society for American Baseball Research

The White Sox turned three triple plays last year. That's among the cool facts you can find therein.

 

I think I was watching for all three of them. One of them was something like F-7-4-6-5-2-5. My 7-year-old was keeping a scorecard, which was pretty funny.It was against the Rangers.

 

That's exactly how Nelson Cruz tried to catch David Freese's triple.

 

One of these days, Alice ... to the moon!

 

An oddity is that Vin Scully worked 48 years before he broadcast a Dodgers triple play. They had one in 1949, the year before he got there, and not another until 1996 in a road game he didn't call. He finally saw one in 1998.

Scully also went 39 years between calling a Dodgers player hit for the cycle -- from 1970 (Wes Parker) to 2009 (Orlando Hudson). And the previous one to that was 1949.

 

I love how it portrays that the kid is going to be the one who catches the ball. And he has one already.

 

Giovanny Urshela just made an unbelievably sweet play at third for the Indians.

 

44. Oldest ever to throw one for the Twins.