That's just one of the many things that makes baseball special. For six months there are multiple games every single day, and every single game has the potential to be a perfect game, or to produce an unassisted triple play, or an inside-the-park home run, or a cycle, etc., etc., etc.
I really wish now I had gotten into watching baseball as a little kid in the 60's. My mother's brothers would come and watch the weekly games on NBC and I'd just stare in absolute confusion. There was only one sport I cared about, and that was that there perfessional rasslin'! Baseball was kind of boring compared to that.
Meanwhile, while I knew nothing about baseball and cared nothing for it, I ironically became absolutely enchanted by baseball history. I would check out books about the old players (Babe Ruth and before) and would just eat it up. I didn't even understand all the records I was reading about, but it was just so . . . fascinating! Yet watching modern players on television didn't appeal to me at all. And just think, if only I had been watching games on TV I would have seen the likes of Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, and Willie Mays.
My love of baseball came to me very late, and I'm sure I still don't know all the rules (especially regarding balks, which I've given up on trying to understand). That's why when I see something weird like this, my first thought is "so this is something else I'm just now learning about!"
Anyway, congratulations to you on your UTP.
Just goes to show that even a journeyman player can have one shining moment if he’s in the right place at the right time.
I didn’t even put in the funniest part. When the game started, the other team didn’t have enough players (remember this is a church softball league)so I drew the short straw and was playing for the opposition so the game could go on.
If the line drive goes out to center field and the guys on base score, my real team wins the game because this was in the last of the ninth and they were behind by one run.
But with the triple play, it was a walk off win for the other side. My coach was mad about it, even though I think we got a win on the books because they didn’t have enough players.