NEWSLETTER
When we share special or unusual highlights here at Baseball is Fun, I often qualify just how special or unique that particular play is. For the most part, I save the highest tier of adjectives for plays like the straight steal of home, a triple play, or a home run robbery. In other words, things that are not just difficult, but that happen so rarely as to make each one extra special.
Except they’ve all now been bumped down a peg, because on Thursday, Vanderbilt pulled off something I didn’t even know existed: a straight triple steal:
There’s really no way to oversell just how unbelievable this play is. There was no luck, weird bounces or trickery. It wasn’t a double steal that drew the catcher or pitchers attention away from the plate. There were no errors and there were no qualifications.
The Vanderbilt Commodores pulled off a legitimate triple steal (including a straight steal of home) and it was glorious.
Absolutely unbelievable.
