Triple Play

So I am on campus today for twelve hours with three distinct breaks. I know this is cheating, but I'm running with this three-motif & giving yins three blog posts involving the number after two. Naturally lets begin with baseball & the rarity of a triple play.
A triple play is of course the defensive team recording all three outs at the same time. There are tons things that need to happen to even set one up. There has to be at least two base runners & the defense has to be in proper position & the moon needs to have a blue tint & a chicken must be sacrificed in left field. I've watched baseball for ten years & have never seen one. Sure they happen, but I don't count seeing the highlights on SportsCenter. The odds of a triple play occurring in a inning are 1,400 to 1 (The Odds on Virtually Everything pg. 50).

Even more rare is a unassisted triple play. That's when one player gets all three outs without throwing the ball. One has to caught a line drive then tag a base & runner. Since 1909, there have been only fifteen unassisted triple plays. That's insane.

Here's a regular triple play:

Here's a unassisted triple play . . . damn MLB media blackout . . . http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=19995921&topic_id=&c_id=mlb&tcid=vpp_copy_19995921&v=3