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lleeder
08-23-2009, 03:14 PM
I know it just happened but its obvious to me that the unassisted triple play by Bruntlett was the greatest play ever.

Best play ever? (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090823&content_id=6571854&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb)
Snoogans
08-23-2009, 03:22 PM
just because what it did, ending the mets game, its hilarious
razorboy
08-23-2009, 03:24 PM
It's almost certainly the greatest play in the history of the ninth inning of that particular game.
lleeder
08-23-2009, 03:24 PM
they should have brought the apple out for that one

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/07/13/alg_home-run-apple.jpg
Furtherman
08-23-2009, 03:32 PM
It's no tuba player getting smashed, but it's still great nonetheless.
underdog
08-23-2009, 04:01 PM
The punter hitting the scoreboard at the Cowboys stadium.
KnoxHarrington
08-23-2009, 04:07 PM
Here's the list of unassisted triple plays in MLB history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unassisted_triple_play#MLB_unassisted_triple_plays

It's kind of a list of no-names, actually. And that's why though this might be one of the coolest plays in a while, I'm not sure I'd call it one of the greatest. Because, as it appears, anyone can do it -- you just gotta be in the right place as the ball is hit in the right way, with the other team being caught off guard.
Devo37
08-23-2009, 05:17 PM
rot in hell! the mets had that game, and it all went to sh!t in 5 seconds.
Fallon
08-23-2009, 05:35 PM
I was at the game in 94 when John Valentin did it for the Sox. Pretty much the same as today's, just in the 6th.

It was also A-Rods first major league game. Booooo!
KingGeno
08-23-2009, 05:38 PM
rot in hell! the mets had that game, and it all went to sh!t in 5 seconds.




Hehe. You mets fans are delusional.
MacVittie
08-23-2009, 05:41 PM
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Lock it up.
Ritalin
08-23-2009, 05:59 PM
Hell, it's not even the best play of this year.

Jacoby straight stealing home off of Pettite was much cooler.
razorboy
08-23-2009, 06:05 PM
Hell, it's not even the best play of this year.

Jacoby straight stealing home off of Pettite was much cooler.

Meh. Upton's was better.
TripleSkeet
08-23-2009, 11:05 PM
Meh. Upton's was better.

Dont forget, Werth did it too.

That play got Eric Bruntletts jersey in the Hall of Fame. That alone made it a VERY cool play.
TNABuffalo
08-24-2009, 12:11 AM
Best play or coolest? two different things
Servo
08-24-2009, 03:20 AM
It was dumb luck.
Melk
08-24-2009, 03:38 AM
I know it just happened but its obvious to me that the unassisted triple play by Bruntlett was the greatest play ever.

Best play ever? (http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090823&content_id=6571854&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb)
If the Chicago White Sox had done it, I'd have said yes. But since the Phillies did it... it is not that special.
sailor
08-24-2009, 04:42 AM
no joke, yo.
drjoek
08-24-2009, 05:19 AM
Couple it with the fact that he booted the previous 2 balls to make it possible He should be embarrased. Plus the final out wasnt very telegenic. Hes running around the field like a little leaguer with his glove out in front of himchasing him out of the baseline.

for those reasons its not the greatest Very cool not the greatest
foodcourtdruide
08-24-2009, 05:27 AM
It was one of the most incredible sequence of events I've ever seen on a baseball field, however that doesn't make it the greatest play.
underdog
08-24-2009, 07:11 AM
It was dumb luck.

They all are.
Judge Smails
08-24-2009, 07:13 AM
Doesn't even come close to the time Bugs Bunny struck out three of the Gashouse Gorillas on a single pitched ball.
TripleSkeet
08-24-2009, 09:47 AM
Best play or coolest? two different things

Id say cool. I think walk off home runs are probably the greatest. As a Phillies fan you have no idea how much it pains me to say that.

Although the play in the World Series last year where Utley faked the throw to first and instead threw the tying run out at home....thats really up there.