My sister knows a lot more about sports than me and I’m not ashamed to admit it. In fact, when she was working a softball tournament a couple of weeks back, she was hanging out with some umpires and other men working in the press box. One of the umpires asked the men if they knew how a triple play could ever happen without a single fielder touching the ball. After it was obvious that none of the men knew, my sister spoke up and said she knew. Then she proceeded to completely clown all the dudes there with her baseball knowledge.
Taken from this article, here’s how it works. There are runners on first and second with no outs. The batter hits a fair ball that can be fielded by one of the infielders. He is out by the infield fly rule even if no one touches the ball. The runner on first passes the runner on second, so the runner on first is out due to rule 7.08, which forbids a runner overtaking another runner on the base paths. Two outs. The runner at second is then struck by the batted ball as it lands. Three outs and no fielder has touched the ball. Not likely that it will ever happen, but that’s how it would.
