What a wild and wacky way to end a game... even for the Phillies-Mets game.



It was 9-6 Phillies and then 9-7. Disaster appeared to be on the horizon, and sure felt like it when the Mets first three batters reached in the bottom of the ninth off Brad Lidge, two on errors, another on an infield hit that sent Citi Field into a frenzy.

With the way Lidge has struggled this season, you expected Jeff Francoeur to slug a game-ending, three-run home run to complete an amazin' comeback by the Mets.

Instead, Francoeur lines into the good 'ol unassisted triple play, courtesy of Eric Bruntlett.

Absolutely improbable. But, as they say about this crazy game, that's baseball.

How rare is the unassisted triple play?

There have been 14 in the history of major league baseball.

That's fewer than the amount of perfect games in baseball history (18). It's also fewer than the amount of times a player has hit four home runs in one game (15).

"I guess I'll go down in history," Bruntlett said. "The runner on second play was jockeying looking like he wanted to steal the base. on that pitch he did. I was going to second to try to cover the back runner tying to steal and the ball ended up being hit right me. The bag was right there and the other runner was right there, too...

"I was almost laughing after the game. That doesn’t happen. What do you do there? The game’s over. High fives."

Bruntlett's remarkable defensive gem was only the second game-ending triple play in the long, storied history of the game. The only other one? On May 31, 1927 by Detroit first baseman John Neun.

After the game's momentum shifted so dramatically in a matter of seconds, you could almost here Whitey turn to his best friend and say, "Hard to believe, Harry."