Simply Amazin'! New York Mets Falter On Triple Play

It would have taken something incredible to bump the New York return of Pedro Martinez off of the front covers of the city's newspapers. In correspondence with the Mets' season, though, miracles do occur—unfortunate miracles, that is. The Mets were defeated on Sunday in front of a near sell-out crowd against the division-leading Philadelphia Phillies, all by a score of 9-7. The remarkable part: the game ended on an unassisted triple play for only the second time in baseball history. On May 31, 1927, Johnny Neun of the Detroit Tigers successfully turned one against the Cleveland Indians to seal a 1-0 victory. Now, on August 23, 2009, second baseman Eric Bruntlett joins him in the history books. "I was almost laughing, it doesn't happen," exclaimed Bruntlett as he stumbled over his words to describe the feat. The play occurred during the Mets' frame in the bottom of the ninth, with Luis Castillo on second and Daniel Murphy on first. On the 2-2 count fro...