The Rockies may have lost Tuesday, but they turned a triple play

The Colorado Rockies may have lost Tuesday, but it wasn’t all bad. The club pulled off the improbable, picking up a triple play against the Arizona Diamondbacks. 

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Allow us to set the stage. Ender Inciarte led off the inning with a double. The next batter, Phil Gosselin, walked, putting men on first and second for slugger Paul Goldschmidt.

On the third pitch of his at-bat, Goldschmidt hit a line drive to Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes. Curiously, both the runners were moving on the play. Reyes made the catch for the first out, fired to second for the second out and watched as second baseman DJ LeMahieu casually tossed the ball to first for the triple play.

Even though Goldschmidt was at the center of the play, he seemed to handle it pretty well, according to Dargan Southard of MLB.com.

“It’s part of the game,” Goldschmidt said. “It may never happen again to me, personally. They got really good jumps. It was unfortunate. It maybe would have been nice to just take and let them get second and third with no or one out, but it was a good pitch to hit. It just happened to be right at him.”

Though the Rockies haven’t been around that long, the franchise has already pulled off four triple plays.

It was the fourth triple play turned in franchise history, including Troy Tulowitzki’s famous unassisted triple play on April 29, 2007. The Rockies had last turned a triple play on May 18, 2014, against San Diego.

Goldschmidt became the latest victim of the Rockies incredible defensive magic. The slugger is hitting .324/.416/.557 at Coors Field during his career, so maybe he was due for some bad luck. At the same time, Goldschmidt’s line this season is an amazing .323/.439/.560, so pretty much every park is Coors Field as far as he’s concerned. 

The Rockies may have won this time, but we’re pretty certain Goldschmidt will get the best of them again pretty soon. 

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