Triple Play?!

The baseball season is almost here! This evening we joined Barbara and Susan to go see the Sacramento River Cats play in an exhibition game their parent major league team the Oakland A’s. The rain held off and we only had light drizzle to contend with. The game went as such exhibition games tend to go, with the A’s winning 5-1 behind their strong starting pitching of Rich Harden. The River Cats gave a good accounting of themselves, their pitcher Shane Komine holding off the Oakland bats until the 4th inning.

The most dramatic play occurred in the top of the 7th. Pica had gone off to the box office to pick up tickets for the game in a couple of weeks, and left me with scoring duties. The first play was a fairly solid single by Mark Kotsay, followed by a squibber for a hit about three feet in front of the plate by Marco Scutero. The next play I notice is a fly ball caught in mid-left center, followed by a relay to second base, followed by a throw to first base catching the running off base. And the River Cats start leaving the field, the inning over. Umm—I either profoundly messed up on the scoring, or I just saw a triple play. Barbara and Susan both thought it was a double play, though they didn’t think two people were on base. But when Pica was returning from the box office, she ran into another friend, who asked oh, did you see the triple play? No, she hadn’t, alas.