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unusual facts about triple play


Triple play

In the bottom of the ninth inning with men on first and second, Jeff Francoeur hit a line drive up the middle, where Bruntlett (substituting for Chase Utley) was covering with both men moving.


Éric Carreel

In 1990, in collaboration with Prof. Jacques Lewiner, he founded Inventel of which he was President from 2002 to 2005, thus becoming one of Europe’s foremost businesspeople in the field of triple play.

Kelly Gruber

In the fourth inning of Game 3, Gruber appeared to make a diving tag on Braves runner Deion Sanders' foot to record the third out of a triple play, which would have been only the second such play in World Series history.

One bill

Convergent charging, where a single bill is used for multiple telecommunications services from a single company, as is frequently done with triple play or quadruple play bundles

Parque 18 de marzo de 1938

The stadium was the site of a rare triple play on 23 April 2007 when the Petroleros were at home defending against the Olmecas de Tabasco.

Tera-play

While triple play and quadruple play describe multiple communications services offered by the same company, Tera-play describes support for communications services between people and between machines when a trillion devices are connected to the telecommunications network (“Tera-” means trillion).


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Johnny Neun

That feat would not be duplicated for 82 years, when on August 23, 2009, Eric Bruntlett turned an unassisted triple play for the Philadelphia Phillies to end a game against the New York Mets.

Steffan Tubbs

An avid baseball fan, in April 2007 Tubbs happened to catch Troy Tulowitzki's unassisted triple-play ball.