Eric Bruntlett's unassisted triple play was great to see live at the ballpark, since it was just the 15th unassisted trifecta in baseball history... but I wonder how often one player circles the bases three different times in a 24-hour span , in three different ways, before another hitter comes to the plate.

Get all of that?

Here's what I'm talking about:

Mets outfielder Angel Pagan led off the bottom of the 1st inning Sunday with an inside the park home run. In his second at-bat Sunday, he hit a ball into the bullpen for an outside-the-park home run.

A day later, he led off Monday's series final against the Phillies with "a Little League" home run. With the Mets trailing 3-0 in the bottom of the first, Pagan hit what appeared to be a harmless pop up just behind second base.

Chase Utley fudged the can of corn, however... and then threw the ball into no man's land up the left field line. Pagan easily circled the bases, once again.

So for the third time in 24 hours, Pagan circled the bases before a teammate stepped into the batter's box. And he pulled off the hat trick of "home runs" in a new and interesting way each time.

Anyway, I wonder how often that's been done in baseball history.







(Sorry I couldn't add a photo to this post. It's becoming increasingly annoying when it won't allow me to do so.... blogs are a lot easier to read when there's a photo)