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It could be said there aren't really inside-the-park home runs at the MLB level, just doubles and triples with bad defense. In that vein, the Atlanta Braves sort of turned a triple play on Tuesday, but it might be more accurate to say it was a double play with bad baserunning.
The play came during the third inning against the Boston Red Sox. With Boston's Masataka Yoshida on second base and Adam Duvall on first, Triston Casas hit a shallow fly ball into center field.
Braves center fielder Michael Harris II caught the ball for the first out. At that moment, Duvall was in no-man's land after getting too close to second base which allowed Harris to easily throw him out as he ran back to first.
Then things got weird.
Yoshida, perhaps thinking the Braves weren't paying attention to him, booked it for third and was thrown out by Matt Olson by a good 10 feet. Here's the whole thing:
The end result was the first triple play in the majors this season, the Braves' first triple play since May 6, 2004 and the first 8-3-5 triple play since the Boston Beaneaters turned one in 1885, per MLB.com's Molly Burkhardt.
Statcast tracking didn't explain much for the Red Sox. Yoshida, who also had to run back to second, doesn't start moving toward third until the ball is already in the infield:
So that's how the third inning went for the Red Sox, who were up 2-1 at the time. The good news is the rest of the game went better, with Boston winning 7-1 to improve its record to 54-47.
Despite being seven games above .500, the Red Sox still sit two games back from the final wild-card spot in the American League thanks to the historically competitive AL East. They made their first move at the MLB trade deadline by sending utility man Kiké Hernández back to the Los Angeles Dodgers for prospects, but that might have been addition by subtraction given Hernández's .222/.279/.320 and $10 million salary.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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