Baseball Trivia (triple play)

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How can a triple play be achieved without any defender touching the ball in play?
 

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Ball hits off the guy on 2nds helmet then it hits the runner on first and it trickles off him rolling towards the guy running to first, he tries to dodge it to no avail.
 

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Guys at 1st and 2nd...Guy batting hits infeild fly making guy going to third out...guy going to first passes guy going to 2nd because guy going to 2nd doesnt move because of infield fly...guy who gets passed gets hit with the infield fly...

will all this said its very possible but 0% probable
 

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There are runners on first and second with no outs. The batter hits a fair ball that can be fielded by one of the infielders. He is out by the infield fly rule even if no one touches the ball. Then the crazy stuff really starts. The runner on first passes the runner on second, so the runner on first is out due to rule 7.08, which forbids a runner overtaking another runner on the base paths. Two outs. The runner at second is then struck by the batted ball as it lands (rule 7.08 again—look, it covers a whole host of base running situations). There we have it three outs and no fielder has touched the ball.
 

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There are runners on first and second with no outs. The batter hits a fair ball that can be fielded by one of the infielders. He is out by the infield fly rule even if no one touches the ball. Then the crazy stuff really starts. The runner on first passes the runner on second, so the runner on first is out due to rule 7.08, which forbids a runner overtaking another runner on the base paths. Two outs. The runner at second is then struck by the batted ball as it lands (rule 7.08 again—look, it covers a whole host of base running situations). There we have it three outs and no fielder has touched the ball.
Correct, and it's happened to Buck Schowalter's minor league team in the 1990's.
 

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