Twins missed out on triple play in ‘one of the stranger plays you’ll ever see’
The Minnesota Twins coughed up a four-run lead and lost 8-5 to the Chicago White Sox on Monday night.
Chicago started the rally by scoring two runs in the top of the fourth inning on an Adam Engel single after the Twins thought they may have turned a triple play. Or at least a double play.
Instead, they got one out on a really weird play.
The White Sox had the bases loaded with no outs when Danny Mendick hit a soft liner up the middle that Twins second baseman Luis Arraez nearly snagged. But Arraez dropped it and that set off confusion among a lot of people, except the umpires.
As White Sox announcer Steve Stone said, this was “One of the stranger plays you’ll ever see.”
James McCann was on second base and the Twins could have gotten a second out if shortstop Jorge Polanco had tagged McCann when he strayed off second base.
Or, the Twins could have gotten three outs if Arraez had thrown home and started a 4-2-5-6 triple play. As MLB.com noted the only 4-2-5-6 triple play in baseball history was turned in 1893, when the Brooklyn Grooms did it against the Baltimore Orioles.
So the Twins missed a chance at history.
The Twins announcers originally thought Minnesota had gotten a triple play, but Close Call Sports broke down what happened nicely in this video:
