Logan Schafer Starts Triple Play After Ball Bounces Off Head In Minor League Game (VIDEO)

The triple plays just keep on coming! In the bottom of the third inning of Saturday's minor league game between the Nashville Sounds and Omaha Storm Chasers, Omaha's Clint Robinson drove one to deep center field. With runners on first and second, Sounds outfielder Logan Schafer ran back, leaped and tried to make the catch. The ball bounced off his glove, then his head and Schafer somehow managed to snag it before it hit the ground.

Both baserunners were stuck in no man's land as Schafer threw the ball back so the defense could complete the triple play.

"I felt like I didn't have enough time to turn around and I reached up my glove," Schafer said after Nashville's 4-1 victory. "[The ball] went straight up, hit me in the head and I tried to scoop it up. It was a whole lot of luck and it was pretty crazy."

Earlier last week, the Milwaukee Brewers turned a triple play in thrilling fashion when first baseman Prince Fielder threw out Los Angeles' Matt Kemp at home plate.

One day later, the Boston Red Sox turned a 5-4-3 triple play against the Tampa Bay Rays. The Associated Press pointed out that it was the first time since 1981 that two triple plays were turned in consecutive days.

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Comments

[Always Conservative]

12:44 PM on 08/23/2011

Great play!!

[b0nni3]

01:18 AM on 08/23/2011

perfect, he didn't quit when it hit his glove, he kept his eye on the ball and was able to make an awesome "heads up" play...see what I did there? lol

[Hobsonschoice]

09:11 PM on 08/22/2011

Awesome play! Everybody involved was in shock - love it!

[Politidelic]

05:26 PM on 08/22/2011

Haha!!! That was COOL!

[peacenik1965]

04:48 PM on 08/22/2011

I see 2 separate issues here: 1. A great catch by a centerfielder, keeping his concentration and sticking with the play. 2. A couple of incompetent baserunners! There was nobody out when the ball was hit. Maybe I can understand how the runner on 2nd could have strayed too far off the base, despite being trained not to do so in that situation, since (from his angle) the ball bouncing off the fielder's head may have appeared to be bouncing toward the wall. But there is NO excuse for the runner on 1st, who had a great angle to see what was happening in the field, to find himself having rounded 2nd on his way to 3rd the way he did. Unlike the triple plays in the Majors from that week, these Minor Leaguers showed why they haven't made it to the big time yet. And with braindead baserunning like that, they never will.

[jmartinlegal]

04:10 PM on 08/22/2011

Was I watching a video of Libyan rebels celebrating by shooting their AK-47s into the air, or was that the parking lot after a Raiders game?

[Spongeboblub]

04:01 PM on 08/22/2011

2 words. 5 sylables. Totally awesome.

[srynmichael2]

04:09 PM on 08/22/2011

On e word, one syllable. Great.

[mailman778]

03:47 PM on 08/22/2011

A good video and amazing play, a good start off to the up coming college football season, sure to see many more great amazing plays soon...........

[sargentontc]

04:10 PM on 08/22/2011

Hey this is baseball!!!! Don't mix them up.

[mailman778]

04:17 PM on 08/22/2011

Hey its about amazing plays in SPORTS, dummy, i know that play was in baseball and didnt mix them up and last time i checked football was a sport......

[tjmx0512]

03:23 PM on 08/22/2011

LOVE IT

[dolphinplain]

03:15 PM on 08/22/2011

That's what is called using your head!!!!!!!

[Django48]

03:02 PM on 08/22/2011

Had to make today's ESPN top ten plays of the day.

[quicks9]

02:56 PM on 08/22/2011

great to see a sport not staged like nascar or is it the world federation of nascar!........................

[prestonsturges]

02:45 PM on 08/22/2011

Truly amazing stuff. And they complain about baseball being dull! Ha! That's part of the tension; you never know what might happen. Then two Triple plays in the 'bigs' in two days! Then there's this play; that's three in one week.
Cool! No two games are ever alike!

[boba7576]

01:39 PM on 08/22/2011

2 thumbs up :)

[LostinSocialSpace]

01:33 PM on 08/22/2011

Magnificent!