Royals turn first 5-6-4-3 double play in MLB in 31 years originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
One of the coolest parts of baseball is that you genuinely have no idea what’s going to happen next.
Advertisement
Sometimes, you get to see something that hasn’t happened in 31 years. That’s what the Kansas City Royals did on Monday night.
The feat itself: They turned a 5-6-4-3 double play against the Cleveland Guardians.
For those not familiar with the scorebook numbers — that’s third baseman to shortstop to second baseman to first baseman.
Clearly, that’s not usually the most efficient way to get a pair of outs.
When Rhys Hoskins was hitting in the fourth inning with a runner on first base, though, his hard grounder to the left side was deflected by a diving Maikel Garcia at third.
The bounce went right to Bobby Witt Jr. at shortstop.
Advertisement
A toss from Witt to Jonathan India at second, and a turn to Vinnie Pasquantino at first.
MORE: Yankees outfielder once battled ostrich in 11-plate spaghetti-eating contest
According to MLB Network’s Sarah Langs, it’s the first 5-6-4-3 double play in MLB since Aug. 24, 1995.
That was done by the San Francisco Giants in Montreal with Matt Williams, Royce Clayton, Robby Thompson and Mark Carreon while Mike Lansing was batting.
Well, on Monday, it was 31-year history by the Royals. They’ll take the end result, no matter the extra fielder touches that were needed to get it.
More MLB news:
‘ The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties ’
‘ Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com ’
