You don’t see this very often:
Neal Ball and Bill Wambsganss have company.
Monday night in Progressive Field, Asdrubal Cabrera joined Ball and Wamby as the only players in Indians history with unassisted triple plays.
Cabrera turned his triple play in the fifth inning of the second game of a doubleheader against Toronto. The Indians lost, 3-0, in 10 innings.
Kevin Mench led off the fifth with a single to left off Cliff Lee. Marco Scutaro singled to center.
With left-handed Lyle Overbay at the plate, both runners got huge jumps on a 1-0 pitch. Overbay broke his bat on a sinking liner up the middle. Cabrera made a diving backhanded catch [Out #1], got up, stepped on second to erase Mench [Out # 2] and tagged Scutaro [Out #3].
It happens almost too fast on the video to realize what happened, which I’m sure is exactly how the Blue Jays felt.
