Philadelphia’s Eric Bruntlett unassisted triple play Video
The utility player Eric Bruntlett had ended a game with an unassisted triple play against the New York Mets in major league Philadelphia Phillies’ 9-7 victory on Sunday, August 23 2009. He became the second unassisted triple player in big Major league history. He get the final three players out on his own accomplishing feat.
Eric managed to pull off the feat in the bottom of the 9th with runners on first and second in the ninth inning, Jeff Francoeur hit a line drive up the middle while two base runners attempted to steal a base. Eric Bruntlett was easily snagged the line drive, stepped on second to double up with Luis Castillo and played second base. Daniel Murphy tried to back down away from Bruntlett, but he was third out player.
The Phillies raced onto the field to congratulate Bruntlett after the stunning ending gave Lidge his 25th save in 33 chances of the season. The Phillies scored six times in the first inning off Oliver Perez on three-run homers by Jayson Werth and Carlos Ruiz. The Bruntlett’s triple play preserved a win for Pedro Martinez (2-0) in his return to New York. Nelson Figueroa struck out Martinez to end the 26-minute inning.
Eric Bruntlett told to the media, “The opportunities I’ve had, I haven’t done that well with them. So it was certainly nice to have a good day at the plate and end up feeling good about what I’m doing.” He added, That doesn’t happen. What do you do there? Game is over, high fives.”
You can watch the Eric Bruntlett triple play video from YouTube on Sunday August 23 and see what happened when he caught a line drive from Jeff Francoeur.
