The Milwaukee Brewers turned a 5-4-3 triple play on Sunday against the San Francisco Giants. Earlier this year the Phillies' Eric Bruntlett turned an unassisted triple play, the rarest of all.
The around-the-horn or 5-4-3 triple play was turned third to second to first. At the time the Giants had runners on first and second with nobody out.
It was the top of the sixth inning. Randy Winn had led off the inning against the Brewers' Braden Looper. He hit a single to the opposite field. Next was 1B Ryan Garko, who hit a solid groundball single up the middle.
With nobody out, CF Aaron Rowand came up and hit a hard grounder right to the third basebman, Casey McGehee. McGehee stepped on third, threw to second for two, and back to first for the third out.
It was a bad way to end the inning, as the Giants were leading 1-0 at the time, and the team is always offensively challenged. Worse, McGehee came back in the bottom of the sixth to single and tie the game.
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